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Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose
James Bau Graves
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Description for Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose
Paperback. Presents how America shortchanges the arts and community, and what can be done about it. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
409g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252072086
SKU
V9780252072086
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About James Bau Graves
James Bau Graves is co-director of the Center for Cultural Exchange in Portland, Maine. An ethnomusicologist by training, he has developed open-ended partnerships with many of local ethnic communities, and has been active in presenting traditional and contemporary performers to their own and larger audiences.
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