Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival

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Olivia Cadaval Sojin Kim

Curatorial Conversations

Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival

Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, Diana Baird N'Diaye

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University Press of Mississippi
05 May 2016

Folk art; Folklore, myths & legends; Sociology: customs & traditions

Since its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural democracy. Festival curators play a major role in interpreting the Festival's principles and shaping its practices.

Curatorial Conversations brings together for the first time in one volume the combined expertise of the Festival's curatorial staff - past and present - in examining the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage's representation practices and their critical implications for issues of intangible cultural heritage policy, competing globalisms, cultural tourism, sustainable development and environment, and cultural pluralism and identity.

In the volume, edited by the staff curators Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N'Diaye, contributors examine how Festival principles, philosophical underpinnings, and claims have evolved, and address broader debates on cultural representation from their own experience. This book represents the first concerted project by Smithsonian staff curators to examine systematically the Festival's institutional values as they have evolved over time and to address broader debates on cultural representation based on their own experiences at the Festival.

Edited by: Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, Diana Baird N'Diaye
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 684g
ISBN: 9781496805980
ISBN 10: 1496805984
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 05 May 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Olivia Cadaval, Washington, DC, USA is a curator at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Sojin Kim, Washington, DC, is a curator at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Diana Baird N'Diaye, Washington, DC, is a curator at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Reviews for Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Institution Folklife Festival

-Touting democracy rhetorically is different than steadily working to make it happen. For fifty years, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has been celebrating, recognizing, and documenting the many local-global cultures that make life richly expressive of what's real, everyday, and worthwhile. In an era of shrill, divisive posing, this book is an oasis of thoughtful and thought-provoking reflection on sustained organizing work. This engaged dialogue-driven public curating is cultural democracy in action.---John Kuo Wei Tchen, historian and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America