Stephanie E. Pitts, Sarah M. Price

Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts makes a timely and urgent contribution to debates about the place of arts and culture in contemporary society. The book highlights fresh, forward-thinking audience and organisational attitudes that show the potential of live arts engagement to contribute to engaged citizenship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000167351
• Artikelnr.: 59891088

Autorenporträt

Stephanie E. Pitts is a professor of music education at the University of Sheffield. Her research and teaching interests are in musical participation, concert audiences and music education and in the qualitative research methods used to understand people's uses of music in their everyday lives.

Sarah M. Price is audience researcher and member of the Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC). As both an academic and a freelance audience researcher, Sarah has conducted audience research projects collaboratively with numerous arts organisations, including a Collaborative Doctoral Award with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Her research interests are in the value of arts engagement, understanding audience behaviour and patterns of attendance, and the role of academic research within the arts industry.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Who Goes to the Contemporary Arts? 2. Understanding
Audiences: Research Methods and Approaches 3. "But is it Art?": Defining
the Contemporary Arts 4. Cities for the Arts: The Importance of Place in
Arts Engagement 5. Art forms, Venues and Audience Decision-Making:
Navigating the Cultural Ecology 6. Routes to Engagement in Contemporary
Arts 7. "It's Okay Not to Like it": The Appeal and Frustrations of the
Contemporary Arts 8. Making Sense of the Contemporary Arts: Programme
Notes, Gallery Panels and Arts Talk 9. Uncomfortable Questions in
Contemporary Arts Practice and Research: The Formaldehyde Shark in the Room
10. Audience Development and the Future of the Contemporary Arts: Learning
from Audiences