Cultural democracy : the arts, community, and the public purpose / / James Bau Graves

• Autore: Graves James Bau <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/7/0973
• Soggetto topico: Arts and society - United States; Arts, American
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social life and customs 1971-
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-245) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Communion -- Tradition and innovation -- Presentation and participation -- Conservation and commercialization -- Donation and deduction -- Education -- Mediation -- Globalization and localization -- Revolution.
• Sommario/riassunto: Cultural Democracy explores the crisis of our national cultural vitality, as access to the arts becomes increasingly mediated by a handful of corporations and the narrow tastes of wealthy elites. Graves offers the concept of cultural democracy as corrective--an idea with important historic and contemporary validation, and an alternative pathway toward ethical cultural development that is part of a global shift in values.Drawing upon a range of scholarship and illustrative anecdotes from his own experiences with cultural programs in ethnically diverse communities, Graves explains in convincing detail the dynamics of how traditional and grassroots cultures may survive and thrive--or not--and what we can do to provide them opportunities equal to those of mainstream, Eurocentric culture.
• Altri titoli varianti: Arts, community, and the public purpose
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultural democracy
• ISBN: 9786613251152; 9781283251150; 1283251159; 9780252091407; 025209140X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910957982303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II