Nonprofit enterprise in the arts : studies in mission and constraint / Paul J. DiMaggio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DiMaggio, Paul, author.

Contributor:

DiMaggio, Paul.

Series:

Yale studies on nonprofit organizations.

Yale Studies on Nonprofit Organizations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--United States--Finance.

Arts.

Nonprofit organizations--United States.

Nonprofit organizations.

Art patronage--United States.

Art patronage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking the dichotomy of nonprofit ""high culture"" and for-profit ""popular culture"" into consideration, this volume assesses the relationship between social purpose in the arts and industrial organization. DiMaggio brings together some of the best works in several disciplines that focus on thesignificance of the nonprofit form for our cultural industries, the ways in which nonprofit arts organizations are financed, and the constraints that patterns of funding place on the missions that artists and trustees may wish to pursue. Showing how the production and distribution of art areorganized

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I. Why Are So Many Arts Organizations Nonprofit?; 1. Nonprofit Enterprise in the Performing Arts; 2. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston; II. Between the Market and the Public Purse; 3. Can Culture Survive the Marketplace?; 4. Corporate Contributions to Culture and the Arts: The Organization of Giving and the Influence of the Chief Executive Officer and of Other Firms on Company Contributions in Massachusetts; 5. Support for the Arts from Independent Foundations

6. Public Provision of the Performing Arts: A Case Study of the Federal Theatre Project in ConnecticutIII. Management and Mission; 7. From Impresario to Arts Administrator: Formal Accountability in Nonprofit Cultural Organizations; 8. Tensions of Mission in American Art Museums; 9. The Elusive Promise of Management Cooperation in the Performing Arts; 10. Financially Troubled Museums and the Law; IV. Nonprofit Enterprise in Commercial Cultural Industries; 11. Politics and Programs: Organizational Factors in Public Television Decision Making

12. Should University Presses Compete with Commercial Scholarly Publishers?13. Should the News Be Sold for Profit?; V. European Perspectives; 14. Public Support for the Performing Arts in Europe and the United States; 15. Tax Incentives as Arts Policy in Western Europe; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-43948-3

1-4237-5840-4

0-19-536488-0

1-60129-604-5

OCLC:

64770180