Overview

Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field opens a conversation that is much needed for anyone identifying arts management or cultural management as primary areas of research, teaching, or practice. In the evolution of any field arises the need for scrutiny, reflection, and critique, as well as to display the advancements and diversity in approaches and thinking that contribute to a discipline’s forward progression. While no one volume could encompass all that a discipline is or should be, a representational snapshot serves as a valuable benchmark. This book is addressed to those who operate as researchers, scholars, and practitioners of arts and cultural management. Driven by concerns about quality of life, globalization, development of economies, education of youth, the increasing mobility of cultural groups, and many other significant issues of the twenty-first century, governments and individuals have increasingly turned to arts and culture as means of mitigating or resolving tough policy issues. For their growth, arts and culture sectors depend on people in positions of leadership and management who play a significant role in the creation, production, exhibition, dissemination, interpretation, and evaluation of arts and culture experiences for publics and policies. Less than a century old as a formal field of inquiry, however, arts and cultural management has been in flux since its inception. What is arts and cultural management? remains an open question. A comprehensive literature on the discipline, as an object of study, is still developing. This State of the Discipline offers a benchmark for those interested in the evolution and development of arts and cultural management as a branch of knowledge alongside more established disciplines of research and scholarship.

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Author:   Constance DeVereaux (LEAP Institute for the Arts at Colorado State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9781138048447

ISBN 10:   1138048445
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   08 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section 1: Arts and Cultural Management. Exploring the Field 1. Cultural Management as a Field 2. Arts and Cultural Management 3. Towards a Sociology of Arts Managers 4. Situating Cultural Management 5. Death of the Arts Manager Section 2: The State of Arts and Cultural Management Research 6. Cultural Management Research 7. The Orthodoxy of Cultural Management Research and Possible Paths Beyond it 8. Why are Evaluations in the Field of Cultural Policy (Almost Always) Contested? 9. Arts Marketing (Patrick Germain-Thomas) 10. The Reality of Cultural Work Section 3: Arts and Cultural Management Discourses 11. Cultural Management and its Discontents 12. Silence in Cultural Management 13. Managing Utopias 14. Toward a Practical Theory of Managing the Arts

Reviews

'DeVereaux has done a great service in putting this collection of articles. Altogether, that the book should appeal to students and academics.' -- Arts Management Network

Author Information

Constance  DeVereaux  is  the  Director  of  the  MFA  Program  in  Arts  Administration at University of Connecticut. USA.

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