Brokers and Symbols in American Urban Life
1977; George Washington University; Volume: 50; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3317167
ISSN1534-1518
AutoresNicholas Hopkins, Monday U. Ekpo, Janet Heileman, Maddy Michtom, Ann Osterweil, Tim Sieber, George Smith,
Tópico(s)Art, Politics, and Modernism
ResumoThis paper strives for an understanding of an urban system as a whole through an investigation of the role of esthetic expression in everyday life. The research was carried out in New York in 1971 on behalf of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Three ideas are put forward: 1) the usefulness of a neo-Redfield model understanding the and social processes of the city; 2) the importance of esthetic expression as an aspect of human relations, one whose social significance is closely related to the symbolization of collective and personal identities; and 3) the usefulness of the notion of cultural broker as a key role in urban social and
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