Understanding the Arts and Creative Sector in the United States

by Joni Maya Cherbo, Ruth Ann Stewart, Margaret Jane Wyszomirski

Overview

The arts and creative sector is one of the nation's broadest, most important, and least understood social and economic assets, encompassing both nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, for-profit creative companies, such as advertising agencies, film producers, and commercial publishers, and community-based artistic activities. The thirteen essays in this timely book demonstrate why interest in the arts and creative sector has accelerated in recent years, and the myriad ways that the arts are crucial to the social and national agenda and the critical issues and policies that relate to their practice. Leading experts in the field show, for example, how arts and cultural policies are used to enhance urban revitalization, to encourage civic engagement, to foster new forms of historic preservation, to define national identity, to advance economic development, and to regulate international trade in cultural goods and services.

Illuminating key issues and reflecting the rapid growth of the field of arts and cultural policy, this book will be of interest to students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, to arts educators and management professionals, government agency and foundation officials, and researchers and academics in the cultural policy field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813543086
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2008
Series:	Rutgers Series: The Public Life of the Arts
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	977,657
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

JONI MAYA CHERBO is an independent arts and cultural policy scholar and consultant.

RUTH ANN STEWART is a clinical professor of public policy at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

MARGARET JANE WYSZOMIRSKI is the director of the graduate program in arts policy and administration at Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Defining the Arts and Creative Sector
1. Toward an Arts and Creative Sector
2. Interrelations in the Arts and Creative Sector
3. Field Building: The Road to Cultural Policy Studies in the United States
Part II. Field Issues
4. The Universality of the Arts in Human Life
5. About Artists
6. Art and Cultural Participation at the Heart of Community Life
7. The Arts and Artist in Urban Revitalization
8. The Evolution of Arts and Cultural Districts
9. Capital, Commerce, and the Creative Industries
10. Internet as Medium: Art, Law, and the Digital Environment
11. Historic Preservation in the United States
12. Between Cooperation and Conflict: International Trade in Cultural Goods and Services
13. Identity and Cultural Policy
Notes on Contributors

Editorial Reviews

The collective insights provide an excellent picture of the role the creative sector plays in the US and, indeed, add global implications. A valuable reference for those seriously concerned with the subject.

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