Engaging Art : The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life (Paperback)

Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Question of Participation, Bill Ivey Section 1: 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 Dark: A Theory about Audience Behavior from Sophocles to Spoken Word, Lynne Conner Section Two: Getting off the Beaten Path: Investigating Non-Traditional Audiences, Places and Art Forms 5. Faithful Audiences: The Intersection of Art and Religion, Robert Wuthnow 6. Immigrant Arts Participation: A Pilot Study 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 Technology and Cultural Change 8. Music, Mavens, and Technology, Steven Tepper, Eszter Hargittai, and David Touve 9. Audiences for the Arts in the Age of Electronics, Joel L. Swerdlow 10. Can There Ever Be Too Many Flowers Blooming? Barry Schwartz11. Numbers: Lessons from Radio, Gabriel Rossman Section Four: Revisiting Cultural Participation and Cultural Capital, 12. Arts Participation as Cultural Capital in the United States, 1982?2002: Signs of decline?Paul DiMaggio and Toqir Mukhtar 13.Changing Arts Audiences: Capitalizing on Omnivorousness, Richard A. Peterson and Gabriel Rossman 14. The Crisis in Culture and Inequality, Bonnie H. Erickson Conclusion The Next Great Transformation: Leveraging Policy and Research to Advance Cultural Vitality, Steven J. Tepper