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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Arts funding"”.
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"The things of peace": the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and the transformation of the British musical experience, 1939-1945
… Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), the first body offering state-supported funding for art music activities in Great Britain. Focusing on Britain's musical life during the war demonstrates that the preservation of Britain's "cultural" heritage (of which music was a part) …
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Technologies of abundance : consumer culture, government and the media arts
Arts funding provides one of the clearest examples available of the cybernetic metaphor, that is, the role of cultural policy in hierarchically ranking cultural forms and their publics. Justification for the hierarchical control of the cybernetic apparatus in the national cultural interest takes on …
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The Language of Cultural Policy Advocacy: Leadership, Message, and Rhetorical Style
Since the creation of the NEA in 1965, arts advocates have had an established venue, at the federal level, to advocate for favorable policy incomes, usually in the form of continued or increased public arts funding. Engaging in advocacy as part of a larger policymaking process requires actors …
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Dorothy Elmhirst and the visual arts at Dartington Hall 1925 - 1945
… an account of the development of the visual arts at Dartington Hall in the inter-war period. Particular emphasis has been placed throughout on the role of Dorothy Elmhirst, the joint founder of the Dartington project, in the creation of one of Britain's most innovative experiments in rural …
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New approaches to understanding management and leadership in the performing arts
… about leadership and management in the UK arts and cultural sector have often focussed on a cultural crisis and by implication a crisis in leadership. Many of the performing arts companies described in this thesis produce world-class creative works, high-quality performances, and are well …
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Opera considered as state ceremony
… a flaw in the reasons governments give for funding opera institutions. In the terminology of the 1990s they are presented as 'artistic flagships', in competition with other arts activities for state arts funding. If this argument is accepted, they should properly be excluded from any general …
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Dance interpretation and the cultural institution: exploring the condition(s) of british and french contemporary dance in the 1990s
… to which the structures and practices of public arts funding influence the production and reception of contemporary dance, focusing on British and French dance in the 1990s. By focusing on specific works in critically reflexive terms, it seeks to offer a basis for future ethnographic study of …
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An exploration of the contribution of the arts to local economies in terms of human and social capital.
… exists about the positive impacts of the arts on well-being and society, public funding towards this sector in the UK has decreased significantly over the past decade. Researchers suggest a demonstration of how the arts impact local economies is necessary to justify their funding. This …