Funding bodies : five decades of dance making at the National Endowment for the Arts / Sarah Wilbur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilbur, Sarah, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Endowment for the Arts--History.

National Endowment for the Arts.

Federal aid to dance--United States--History.

Federal aid to dance.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"A cultural and structural analysis of the NEA's dance funding from its inception through the early 2000s. Wilbur studies how people in power engineer and translate institutional norms of arts recognition within dance, performance, and arts policy disclosure"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Institutions Motivate Movement

One: Boom for Whom? Engineering Support for American Concert Dance (1965-1980)

Two: Bureaucratic Angling, Institutional Activism: Dance's (C)overt "Culture Wars" (1981-1996)

Three: Disinvesting in Dance: The NEA's Neoliberal Turn (1997-2016)

Afterword: Does the NEA Need Saving? Endowment and Collective Repair

Appendixes

Appendix A: NEA Leadership Rosters

Appendix B: Project Interlocutors

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8195-8099-6

0-8195-8053-8

OCLC:

1257314559