Engaging Art The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life

Name: Engaging Art The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life
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ISBN: 9780415960427

ISBN-10: 0415960428

ISBN-13: 9780415960427

Edition: 2008

Authors: Bill Ivey, Steven J. Tepper

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Engaging Art explores the many ways that Americans participate in the arts todayfrom museum attendance to music downloading. Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and independently carried out by the Curb Center at Vanderbilt University, this volume is an attempt to address the question of how to better understand the changing landscape of cultural participation.nbsp; By bringing the perspectives of multiple scholars and experts to the table, the volume offers a new framework for understanding the momentous changes to impact America's cultural life over the past fifty years.nbsp; This volume offers suggestive glimpses into the character and consequence of a new engagement with…

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List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.09" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Bill Iveywas the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1998 through 2001, was director of the Country Music Foundation from 1971 to 1998, and was twice elected Chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He presently serves as founding director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Question of Participation




Conceptualizing and Studying Cultural Participation



Engaging Art: What Counts?




Comparing Participation in the Arts and Culture




Multiple Motives, Multiple Experiences: The Diversity of Cultural Participation




In and Out of the Dark: A Theory about Audience Behavior from Sophocles to Spoken Word




Getting off the Beaten Path: Investigating Non-Traditional Audiences,Places and Art Forms



Faithful Audiences: The Intersection of Art and Religion




Immigrant Arts Participation: A Pilot Study of Nashville Artists




Artistic Expression in the Age of Participatory Culture: How and Why Young People Create




New Technology and Cultural Change



Music, Mavens, and Technology




Audiences for the Arts in the Age of Electronics




Can There Ever Be Too Many Flowers Blooming?




Numbers: Lessons from Radio




Revisiting Cultural Participation and Cultural Capital



Arts Participation as Cultural Capital in the United States, 1982 2002: Signs of decline?




Changing Arts Audiences: Capitalizing on Omnivorousness




The Crisis in Culture and Inequality



Conclusion: The Next Great Transformation: Leveraging Policy and Research to Advance Cultural Vitality