Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Art is no fringe: an introduction / Lambert Zuidervaart -- Part I: Politics of culture -- Postmodern arts and the birth of a democratic culture / Lambert Zuidervaart -- The global and the local: community-based culture and economic justice / Bob Goudzwaard and Andre Droogers -- Music, marginalization, and racial identities / Sharon R.Vriend -- Part II: Institutions of art -- The necessity of Christian public artistry / Calvin G. Seerveld -- Fighting the musical museum: Aaron Copland's 'Music and imagination' / Jennifer DeLapp -- Sampling and society: intellectual infringement and digital folk music in John Oswald's 'Plunderphonics' / Jim Leach -- Part III: Questions of interpretation -- Otherwise than violence: toward a hermeneutics of connection / James H. Olthuis -- Why interpretation? / Theo de Boer -- A matter of trust? Law and democracy as literary performance / Kevin R. den Dulk -- Part IV: Creations of history -- Whatever happened to primitivism? A case study in the cultural politics of art history and intellectual history / Graham Birtwistle -- Hogenberg and history: popular imagery of the Golden age and the making of Dutch history / Lisa De Boer -- Putting a face on justice: group portraiture in early Netherlandish painting / Henry M. Luttikhuizen

Citation: Zuidervaart, Lambert and Henry Luttikhuizen (eds.). The arts, community, and cultural democracy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. (ICS Library: NX180 .S6 A773 1999)