Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public

Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose

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. _x000B__x000B_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 survive and thrive--or not--and what we can do to provide them opportunities equal to those of mainstream, Eurocentric culture.

Country	USA
Author	James Bau Graves
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780252091407
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer	University of Illinois Press
NumberOfPages	272
PublicationDate	2004-11-19
Publisher	University of Illinois Press
ReleaseDate	2004-11-19
Studio	University of Illinois Press

Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose