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A Seismic Shift in U.S. Federal Arts Policy: A Tale of Organizational Challenge and Controversy in the 1990s
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has been the focus of controversy in the 1990s as mentioned in this paper, leading to extreme political scrutiny of and controversy over the NEA and its funding activities.Abstract:
The eruption of the "culture wars" in 1989 pushed U.S. arts policy to the forefront of the public agenda, leading to extreme political scrutiny of and controversy over the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and its funding activities. As the premier national-level public agency charged with supporting the arts in the United States, the NEA stood at the heart of debates on related arts policy. With an empirical focus on the NEA in the 1990s, we delineate and examine the broader effects and implications of the surrounding debates and related policy outcomes. In general, in keeping with the conservative political agenda of the 1990s in the United States, the result was the development of policies ostensibly aimed at promoting access to the arts that demoted concerns over artistic excellence, along with direct attacks on the NEA's overall administrative philosophy and decision-making practices. Employing insights from critical theory and reflexive sociology, we analyze the dramatic organizational shifts an...read more
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The field of cultural production, or: the economic world reversed in Sociologie empirique de la littérature et des arts.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the relationship between the production litteraire and the economy of a society. But their focus was on the relation between le champ de la production litteraires and the society.
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Creative placemaking and the NEA: unpacking a multi-level governance
TL;DR: The role of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in shaping the arts and cultural sector is not well understood as discussed by the authors, and the role of NEA in the development of the creative placemaking policy is multifaceted.
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Les dynamiques du changement dans l'action publique : une analyse comparative historique des politiques culturelles mexicaine et argentine, 1983-2009
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of socio-economic and politiques culturelles between Mexicoique and Argentina is presented, focusing on the processus de decentralisation, de transnationalisation, and d'inclusion du secteur prive (marchand et associatif) dans les politiques in argentine and mexicaine.
Art and the Challenge of Markets: From Commodification of Art to Artistic Critiques of Capitalism
TL;DR: Art and the Challenge of Markets as mentioned in this paper examines the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s.
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Heteronomy in the Arts Field: State Funding and British Arts Organizations
TL;DR: An arena that, until recently, was part of the relatively autonomous sector in the field of cultural production is discussed and it is argued that it became more heteronomous, due to the penetration by the state.
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