Not Here, Not Now, Not That!: Protest over Art and Culture in America

Not Here, Not Now, Not That!: Protest over Art and Culture in America - Paperback

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Not Here, Not Now, Not That!: Protest over Art and Culture in America - Paperback

Not Here, Not Now, Not That!: Protest over Art and Culture in America - Paperback

by Steven J. Tepper
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In the late 1990s Angels in America, Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art but not others? Not Here, Not Now, Not That! examines a wide range of controversies over films, books, paintings, sculptures, clothing, music, and television in dozens of cities across the country to find out what turns personal offense into public protest.

What Steven J. Tepper discovers is that these protests are always deeply rooted in local concerns. Furthermore, they are essential to the process of working out our differences in a civil society. To explore the local nature of public protests in detail, Tepper analyzes cases in seventy-one cities, including an in-depth look at Atlanta in the late 1990s, finding that debates there over memorials, public artworks, books, and parades served as a way for Atlantans to develop a vision of the future at a time of rapid growth and change.

Eschewing simplistic narratives that reduce public protests to political maneuvering, Not Here, Not Now, Not That! at last provides the social context necessary to fully understand this fascinating phenomenon.
ISBN9780226792873
Author Steven J. Tepper
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
GenreNews & politics, Education, Arts, and Society & culture
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages384
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Steven J. Tepper

Steven J. Tepper is assistant professor of sociology and associate director at the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. He is coeditor of Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life.

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