Product Description

Taking the dichotomy of nonprofit "high culture" and for-profit "popular culture" into consideration, this volume assesses the relationship between social purpose in the arts and industrial organization. DiMaggio brings together some of the best works in several disciplines that focus on the significance of the nonprofit form for our cultural industries, the ways in which nonprofit arts organizations are financed, and the constraints that patterns of funding place on the missions that artists and trustees may wish to pursue. Showing how the production and distribution of art are organized in the United States, the book delineates the differing roles of nonprofit organizations, proprietary firms, and government agencies. In doing so, it brings to the surface some of the special tensions that beset arts management and policy, the way the arts are changing or are likely to change, and the policy alternatives "high culture" faces.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1631737 in Books
• Published on: 1987-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 386 pages

Review

"[A] landmark volume....Deserve[s] a special place on the bookshelves of scholars and practitioners interested in this field."--Public Administration Review
"A richly diverse collection, significant for its consideration of a variety of historical, sociological, and economic factors contributing to the production of cultural goods."--American Journal of Sociology
"This book is a treasure. A compendium of ideas, a collection of analyses and research discoveries, it should be invaluable to arts administrators, policy makers, funders, and to artists themselves."--Foundation News
"This book gives more than its title promises. Besides the detailed multidisciplinary analysisof the role and significane of the non-profit enterprise in the arts, it also offers a broad overview of all the possible sources and ways of financing culture....Any researcher or practitioner interested in either culturer or non-profit institutions will find in this book many pieces of useful information and many ideas which are worth being considered, discussed and thought through, and developed further."--Voluntas
"Anyone seriously interested in the non-profit world pays careful attention to the material coming out of Yale. Messrs. Simon and DiMaggio and their colleagues have not only made serious philanthropic research respectable, they've made it important."--Bob Payton, Exxon Education Foundation

About the Author
Paul J. DiMaggio is at Yale University.