Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles

摘要

Peterson is more rigorous in tracing the lineage of "multiculturalism" as an expressive arts movement in the Los Angeles area and contextualizing "Grand Performances" within the political and market logics of ethnicity and identity formation across this particular urban landscape. Since the talent comes from the city itself, "Grand Performances" directly attracts a wide variety of community groups and invites them to occupy 2 California Plaza as emblematically theirs. [...] DaKAH is an ideal type of "sonic embodiment" and sounding out the city of LA, because the group remains explicitly local in its lyrical content and instrumental talent, purposefully inclusive in its orchestration and style mixture, and is dance-oriented.