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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graves, James Bau, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society--United States.

Arts and society.

United States.

Arts, American.

United States--Social life and customs--1971-.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Arts, community, and the public purpose

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2005]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Communion

Tradition and innovation

Presentation and participation

Conservation and commercialization

Donation and deduction

Education

Mediation

Globalization and localization

Revolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-245) and index.

ISBN:

0252029658

0252072081

OCLC:

55066459