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Engaging Art explores what it ways 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 Selection; and MIT scholars Henry Jenkins and Marker Schuster), this volume analyzes central trends involving technology, audition 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 Fine 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 quondam-fashioned participation in the arts. The authors in this volume hint at a vivid time to come for art and citizen art making. They argue that if we center a new commitment to arts participation in everyday art making, inventiveness, and quality of life, we will non only restore the lifelong pleasure of homemade art, but volition probable seed a new generation of enthusiasts who will support America's signature nonprofit cultural institutions well into the futurity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.  Introduction: The Question of Participation, Beak Ivey Section one: Conceptualizing and Studying Cultural Participation 1.Engaging Art: What Counts? Steven J. Tepper and Yang Gao  2. Comparing Participation in the Arts and Culture, J. Mark Schuster  3. Multiple Motives, Multiple Experiences: The Diversity of Cultural Participation, Francie Ostrower, Ph.D.  4. In and Out of the Nighttime: A Theory about Audience Behavior from Sophocles to Spoken Word, Lynne Conner Section Two: Getting off the Browbeaten Path: Investigating Non-Traditional Audiences, Places and Fine art Forms 5. True-blue Audiences: The Intersection of Art and Religion, Robert Wuthnow  vi. Immigrant Arts Participation: A Airplane pilot Report of Nashville Artists, Jennifer C. Lena and Daniel B. Cornfield  7. Artistic Expression in the Age of Participatory Culture: How and Why Young People Create, Henry Jenkins and Vanessa Bertozzi Section Three: New Engineering and Cultural Change viii. Music, Mavens, and Technology, Steven Tepper, Eszter Hargittai, and David Touve  ix. Audiences for the Arts in the Age of Electronics, Joel 50. Swerdlow  10. Can There Ever Be Besides Many Flowers Blooming? Barry Schwartz  xi. Numbers: Lessons from Radio, Gabriel Rossman Section Four: Revisiting Cultural Participation and Cultural Uppercase, 12. Arts Participation equally Cultural Capital in the United States, 1982—2002: Signs of reject? Paul DiMaggio and Toqir Mukhtar  xiii.Changing Arts Audiences: Capitalizing on Omnivorousness, Richard A. Peterson and Gabriel Rossman  14. The Crisis in Civilization and Inequality, Bonnie H. Erickson Conclusion The Next Not bad Transformation: Leveraging Policy and Enquiry to Advance Cultural Vitality, Steven J. Tepper

Editor(s)

Biography

Pecker Ivey is Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt Academy. From May 1998 through September 2001, Ivey served as the 7th Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Steven J. Tepper is Associate Director of the Adjourn Center for Fine art, Enterprise, and Public Policy and Assistant Professor of Folklore at Vanderbilt Academy.

Reviews

"Arts participation has long been treated past arts policymakers equally a black box with meters reading 'number of eyeballs' or 'number of derrieres in seats.' Engaging Art peeks inside the box, showing the complexity, multi-facetedness, and diverseness of forms that engaging with the arts takes in America today."—Larry Rothfield, Kinesthesia Director, Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago.

"For anyone who wants to come to grips with the shape and trajectory of gimmicky cultural life, Engaging Art will be indispensable. …  Tepper and Ivey have set a new agenda for cultural analysis."—Wendy Griswold, Northwestern University and the University of Oslo

"Engaging Art is a superb, thoroughgoing survey of the speedily irresolute nature of American cultural activities at the turn of the millennium.  Xl years after the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts, the editors and contributors make a conclusive case for democratizing and diversifying our policy concept of 'public arts participation.'"—Douglas Dempster, Marie and Joseph D. Jamail Senior Regents Professor in Fine Arts, Interim Dean of the College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin

"Just the book I've been waiting for: a serious inquiry into the ways that participatory media practices, intercultural diversity and upper end occupational demands are reshaping how we engage in and value the arts. Engaging Art identifies challenges that all of us involved in educating artists or producing and presenting the arts will demand to face, and the sooner, the better."—Steven D. Lavine, President, California Establish of the Arts

"The splendid grouping of authors collected in Engaging Art sheds new lite on what it means for citizens to engage with the broadest range of art forms and activities. The effect addressed is whether popular engagement with art matters in a commonwealth –and the answer is that it does, though non maybe in ways that readers will expect. This is i of the most of import books ever written on the significance of arts participation."—Stanley N. Katz, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson, Princeton University

"Engaging Art addresses ii fundamental questions: "1) What is the land of cultural participation and engagement in the United States; and 2) How is participation changing?" … The contributors provide an all-encompassing historical overview of arts participation in the United States; employ quantitative and qualitative resources to illustrate growth and reject in major arts disciplines; and innovate discussions almost fine art making, art consumption, and selection." Lisa L. Higgins and Teresa Hollingsworth, Western Folklore, volume 69-ii