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ISBN 10: 041596041X

ISBN 13: 9780415960410

Author: Steven J. Tepper, Bill Ivey

Engaging Art explores what it means to participate in the arts in contemporary society – from museum attendance to music downloading. Drawing on the perspectives of experts from diverse fields (including Princeton scholars Robert Wuthnow and Paul DiMaggio; Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice; and MIT scholars Henry Jenkins and Mark Schuster), this volume analyzes key trends involving technology, audience demographics, religion, and the rise of “do-it-yourself” participatory culture. Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and independently carried out by the Curb Center at Vanderbilt University, Engaging Art offers a new framework for understanding the momentous changes impacting America’s cultural life over the past fifty years. This volume offers suggestive glimpses into the character and consequence of a new engagement with old-fashioned participation in the arts. The authors in this volume hint at a bright future for art and citizen art making. They argue that if we center a new commitment to arts participation in everyday art making, creativity, and quality of life, we will not only restore the lifelong pleasure of homemade art, but will likely seed a new generation of enthusiasts who will support America’s signature nonprofit cultural institutions well into the future.

Engaging Art The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life 1st Table of contents:

1 Engaging Art What Counts?

Introduction

Participation in Context

Motivations for Studying and Tracking Participation

Indicators of Participation

Demographic Correlates of Participation

Trends in Participation

The Participation Disposition: The “Do More Do More” Hypotheses

Broadening the Aperture: New Approaches to Culture

Participation through Personal Practice

Conclusion

Bibliography

Endnotes

2 Comparing Participation in the Arts and Culture1

Introduction

Comparison

The Challenges

Defining Participation

Defining Arts and Culture

Question Wording and Survey Design

Looking at the Data

In Summary

Bibliography

Notes for Table 2.1:

Endnotes

3 Multiple Motives, Multiple Experiences The Diversity of Cultural Participation

Introduction

Shifting Understandings of Diversity and Cultural Participation

Surveying Cultural Participation and Motivations: About the Study

Variations in Motivations for Attendance

Experiences at Cultural Events

Comparing Motivations and Experiences: Do Arts Attendees Get What They Seek?

Implications

Bibliography

Endnotes

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

From Seeing Place to Hearing Place

The Active Environment

The Active Audience

Constructing the Passive Audience

Silencing Twentieth-Century Audiences

Into the Light: A New Era of Active Audiences

Redemocratizing the Arts

Conclusion

Bibliography

Endnotes

Section Two: Getting off the Beaten Path Investigating Nontraditional Audiences, Places, and Art Forms

5 Faithful Audiences The Intersection of Art and Religion

Introduction

Religious Organizations as Venues

Degrees of Separation

Spirituality and the Arts

Mutual Misgivings

Implications

Bibliography

Endnotes

6 Immigrant Arts Participation A Pilot Study of Nashville Artists

Interviews

Context of Reception: Art and Community

Somali Immigrants and Participatory Arts

Kurdish Immigrants and Participatory Arts

Korean Immigrants and Participatory Arts

Indian Immigrants and Participatory Arts

Future of Immigrant Arts Participation in the United States

Influences on the Future of Immigrant Arts

Currents in Immigrant Communities

Economic Pressures and Technology Impact Immigrant Arts

Supportive Social Networks between Native-Born and Immigrant Artists and Hybridization

The Organizational Capacity of Immigrant Arts

Grants Agency Support

Nature of the Work Itself

Conclusion

Bibliography

Endnotes

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

Introduction

Rethinking Participation

Redefining Art

Redesigning Art Worlds

Reconsidering the Digital

Remaking Art Institutions

Bibliography

Endnotes

Section Three: New Technology and Cultural Change

8 Music, Mavens, and Technology

Introduction

History of Technology and Cultural Change

More, More, and Then Something Extra: The Shifting Landscape of Cultural Consumption

Pathways through which We Find the New

College Students’ Music-Finding Behavior

Implications: A Dynamic Model of Cultural Preference Formation

Conclusion

Bibliography

9 Audiences for the Arts in the Age of Electronics

Introduction

The Always-On Generation

Changes in Cognition and Attention

Interactivity and a Do-lt-Yourself Ethos

Participation as Personalization

Technological Determinism versus Determining Technology

Bibliography

Endnotes

10 Can There Ever Be Too Many Flowers Blooming?

Introduction

The Psychologic of Choice

Is Culture Different?

The Paradoxes of Choice Overload in Culture

How Many Cultures?

So How Many Flowers, and Who Decides?

Acknowledgment

Bibliography

11 By the Numbers Lessons from Radio

Introduction

Radio Data

Data Use

Implications for the Future and Other Cultural Fields

Bibliography

Endnotes

Section Four: Revisiting Cultural Participation and Cultural Capital

12 Arts Participation as Cultural Capital in the United States, 1982–2002 Signs of Decline?

Data and Implications

Indicators of Decline

Results

Has Arts Participation Declined?

Has Arts Attendance Declined Most among the Highly Educated?

Are the High-Culture Arts Being Defeminized?

Conclusions

Bibliography

Endnotes

13 Changing Arts Audiences Capitalizing on Omnivorousness

Introduction

Art as a Status Marker

Creating and Understanding the HUs, HOs, LUs, and LOs

Summary Sketch of the Two Sorts of Highbrows

Arts Targets among the Lowbrows

The Arts-Related Activity of Targets

Demographics of Targets

Arts Education of Targets

Music Tastes of the Targets

A Summary of Findings Relevant for Arts Policy

Cultural Policy in the Post Highbrow-Snob World

Consolidating the Status Quo

The Mix of Music

Cultivation and Facilitation

Changing Scale

A Value of Art Is in the Doing of It

Classical Music and the Internet

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Endnotes

14 The Crisis in Culture and Inequality

Introduction: The Problem with Culture

Trends in Culture

Differentiation: The Multiplication of Separate Occupational Worlds and Their Cultures

Mobility: Shifting between Occupational Worlds

Growing Income Inequality

Globalization

Educational Inflation: Rising Levels of Education Requirements for Good Jobs

More Women in the Workplace

The Future of Culture?

What Is to Be Done?

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

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

The State of Cultural Participation in the United States

A Renaissance of Participation

Changes in Participation: New Inequalities and a Growing Divide?

Cultural Vitality: Participation and the Public Interest

Moving Forward: New Research on Changing Patterns of Participation

Moving Forward: Increasing Cultural Vitality for All Americans

Build and Support Citizen Capacity

Expand and Facilitate Choice

Nurture and Enable Critique, Connoisseurship, and Connection

Bibliography

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