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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: art of emergency
    sub title: aesthetics and aid in African crises
  name:
    name part: Ndaliko, Chérie Rivers
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Anderson, Samuel Mark
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Case studies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Across Africa, artists increasingly turn to NGO sponsorship in pursuit of greater influence and funding, while simultaneously NGOs-both international and local-commission arts projects to buttress their interventions and achieve greater reach and marketability. As such, the key values of artistic expression become "healing" and "sensitization" measured in turn by "impact" and "effectiveness." Such rubrics obscure the aesthetic complexities of the artworks and the power dynamics that inform their production. Clashes arise as foreign NGOs import foreign aesthetic models and preconceptions about their efficacy, alongside foreign interpretations of politics, medicine, psychology, trauma, memorialization, and so on. Meanwhile, each community embraces its own aesthetic precedents, often at odds with the intentions of humanitarian agencies. The arts are a sphere in which different worldviews enter into conflict and conversation. To tackle the consequences of aid agency arts deployment, the volume assembles ten case studies from across the African continent employing multiple media including music, sculpture, photography, drama, storytelling, ritual, and protest marches. Organized under three widespread yet under-analyzed objectives for arts in emergency-demonstration, distribution, and remediation-each case offers a different disciplinary and methodological perspective on a common complication in NGO-sponsored creativity. The Art of Emergency shifts the discourse on arts activism away from fixations on message and toward diverse investigations of aesthetics and power negotiations. In doing so, this volume brings into focus the conscious and unconscious configurations of humanitarian activism, the social lives it attempts to engage, and the often-fraught interactions between the two"--
  table of contents: To set to work even with a broken heart : musical aesthetics of collective protests in South Africa / Omotayo Jolaosho -- Covering emergency : NGO photographs of stability in a space of ongoing conflict / Aubrey Graham -- Making a Difference? : musical strategies among Malawi's volun-tourists / Ian R. Copeland -- Mobutu's ghost : a case for the urgency of history in cultural aid / Chérie Rivers Ndaliko -- Sexual violence and the politics of forgiveness in Guinea : musical interventions -- Sounding the ethnic, shaping the nation : music and the politics of belonging from colonial myth to cultural peacekeeping in Mali -- Unraveling and welding together : war's transformative influence on contemporary Mozambican art / Amy Schwartzott -- Humanitarian theatre in the Great Lakes region : in pursuit of performativity -- Times past under fire : accounting for the efficacy of reconciliation rituals in postwar Sierra Leone -- Mice, cows, and real Rwandans : the folklore of emergency in a Rwandan refugee camp.
  note: edited by Chérie Rivers Ndaliko and Samuel Mark Anderson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: Arts and society
    geographic: Africa
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Art and social action
    geographic: Africa
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Non-governmental organizations
    geographic: Africa
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Art and social action
  subject:
    topic: Arts and society
  subject:
    topic: Non-governmental organizations
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
  classification: NX180.S6 A734 2019
  classification: 701/.03
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The art of emergency
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
    identifier: (DLC) 2019036481
  identifier: 9780190692322
  identifier: 9780190692339
  identifier: 0190692332
  identifier: 0190692324
  identifier: 9780190692353
  identifier: 9780190692346
  identifier: 9780190692377
  identifier: 2019036480
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190820
    record change date: 20250318214814.0
    record identifier: in00004168519
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng