Bøger i Rutgers Series: The Public Life of the Arts serien

Despite its size and its economic impact, the US arts community is not articulate about how it serves the public interest. This book encourages policy makers to investigate the crucial importance of the arts in the US, aiming to to provide new ideas, concepts and data.

A survey of community-based performance in the US from its roots, to its flourishing during the 1960s, to present-day popular culture. It provides descriptions of performances and processes, first-person stories, and analysis and shows how ritualism reinforces community identification while aestheticism enables locals to transgress cultural norms.

Arts organizations once sought patrons primarily from among the wealthy, but now they have revised their goals as they seek to broaden their audiences. This book draws on interviews with members of nonprofit cultural organizations to explore how they are trying to increase participation and the extent to which they have been successful.

Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities-Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society.

Who Owns Culture? offers analysis of cultural authorship and appropriation within American law. From indigenous art to Linux, it takes the reader on a tour between law and culture and provides insights into communal authorship, cultural appropriation, intellectual property law, and the formation of American culture.

Demonstrates why interest in the arts and creative sector has accelerated, and the various ways that the arts are crucial to the social and national agenda. This title shows, for example, how arts and cultural policies are used to enhance urban revitalization and to encourage civic engagement.