Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field

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Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field opens a conversation that is much needed for anyone identifying arts management or cultural management as primary areas of research, teaching, or practice. In the evolution of any field arises the need for scrutiny, reflection, and critique, as well as to display the advancements and diversity in approaches and thinking that contribute to a discipline’s forward progression. While no one volume could encompass all that a discipline is or should be, a representational snapshot serves as a valuable benchmark. This book is addressed to those who operate as researchers, scholars, and practitioners of arts and cultural management. Driven by concerns about quality of life, globalization, development of economies, education of youth, the increasing mobility of cultural groups, and many other significant issues of the twenty-first century, governments and individuals have increasingly turned to arts and culture as means of mitigating or resolving tough policy issues. For their growth, arts and culture sectors depend on people in positions of leadership and management who play a significant role in the creation, production, exhibition, dissemination, interpretation, and evaluation of arts and culture experiences for publics and policies. Less than a century old as a formal field of inquiry, however, arts and cultural management has been in flux since its inception. What is arts and cultural management? remains an open question. A comprehensive literature on the discipline, as an object of study, is still developing. This State of the Discipline offers a benchmark for those interested in the evolution and development of arts and cultural management as a branch of knowledge alongside more established disciplines of research and scholarship. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Tables Foreword List of Contributors Preface Introduction Acknowledgements SECTION 1 Arts and Cultural Management: Exploring the Field 1 Cultural Management as a Field 2 Arts and Cultural Management: A Brief, Comparative in Curricular Design: Cases From the UK, USA, and China 3 Towards a Sociology of Arts Managers: Profiles, Expectations, and Career Choices 4 Situating Cultural Management 5 Death of the Arts Manager SECTION 2 The State of Arts and Cultural Management Research 6 Cultural Management Research: Putting the Cart and the Tail in Their Proper Places 7 The Orthodoxy of Cultural Management Research and Possible Paths Beyond It 8 Why Are Evaluations in the Field of Cultural Policy (Almost Always) Contested? Major Problems, Frictions, and Challenges 9 Arts Marketing: A New Marketing Art 10 The Reality of Cultural Work SECTION 3 Arts and Cultural Management Discourses 11 Cultural Management and Its Discontents 12 Silence in Cultural Management 13 Managing Real Utopias: Artistic and Creative Visions and Implementation 14 Toward a Practical Theory of Managing the Arts Index