Engaging Art Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: The Question of Participation   Bill Ivey     1
Conceptualizing and Studying Cultural Participation
Engaging Art: What Counts?   Steven J. Tepper   Yang Gao     17
Comparing Participation in the Arts and Culture   J. Mark Schuster     49
Multiple Motives, Multiple Experiences: The Diversity of Cultural Participation   Francie Ostkower     85
In and Out of the Dark: A Theory about Audience Behavior from Sophocles to Spoken Word   Lynne Conner     103
Getting off the Beaten Path: Investigating Non-Traditional Audiences, Places, and Art Forms
Faithful Audiences: The Intersection of Art and Religion   Robert Wuthnow     127
Immigrant Arts Participation: A Pilot Study of Nashville Artists   Jennifer C. Lena   Daniel B. Cornfield     147
Artistic Expression in the Age of Participatory Culture: How and Why Young People Create   Henry Jenkins   Vanessa Bertozzi     171
New Technology and Cultural Change
Music, Mavens, and Technology   Steven Tepper   Eszter Hargittai   David Touve     199
Audiences for the Arts in the Age of Electronics   Joel L. Swerdlow     221
Can There Ever Be Too Many Flowers Blooming?   Barry Schwartz     239
By the Numbers: Lessons from Radio   Gabriel Rossman     257
Revisiting Cultural Participation and Cultural Capital
Arts Participation as Cultural Capital in the United States, 1982-2002: Signs of Decline?   Paul Dimaggio   Toqir Mukhtar     273
Changing Arts Audiences: Capitalizing on Omnivorousness   Richard A. Peterson   Gabriel Rossman     307
The Crisis in Culture and Inequality   Bonnie H. Erickson     343
Conclusion: The Next Great Transformation: Leveraging Policy and Research to Advance Cultural Vitality   Steven J. Tepper     363
About the Authors     387
Index     391