Michael Sy Uy

Ask the Experts

How Ford, Rockefeller, and the NEA Changed American Music

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tells a new story about patterns of public and private grantmaking from the 1950s to the 1970s, a period during which the United States witnessed a remarkable expansion in arts patronage. Through archival documents, oral history, and ethnographic material, author Michael Sy Uy offers an in-depth analysis of grant-making practices, and highlights important and instructive issues concerning philanthropy, arts patronage, and musical production and consumption.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780197510445
• ISBN-10: 0197510442
• Artikelnr.: 59179589

Autorenporträt

Michael Sy Uy is the Allston Burr Resident Dean of Dunster House, Assistant Dean of Harvard College, and a Lecturer in the Harvard University Department of Music. His main areas of scholarly research focus on philanthropy, arts education, cultural policy, and connoisseurship. In 2018, he was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award by the Harvard Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Who Were the Experts?
* Chapter 1: Defining Excellence, Quality, and Style: Consultants as
Contributory Experts
* Chapter 2: Gatekeeping from Within: Grantmaking Officers as
Interactional Experts
* Chapter 3: Pluralism and Public-Private Relationships in the Field of
Cultural Production
* Part II: Experts in Action
* Chapter 4: The Rockefeller Foundation, the University New Music
Center, and "Foundation Music"
* Chapter 5: The Ford Foundation, Matching Grants, and Endowment
Building
* Chapter 6: The National Endowment for the Arts, the United States
Bicentennial, and the Expansion Arts and Jazz-Folk-Ethnic Programs
* Epilogue
* Appendix
* Bibliography