| Description |
1 online resource (x, 358 pages) |
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Kunst und Gesellschaft |
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Kunst und Gesellschaft (Wiesbaden, Germany)
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| Contents |
Power and Policies in and by the Arts-Introduction -- Part I Establishing and De-Establishing Power in the Arts -- Repurposing the Black Arts Movement on the South Side of Chicago -- The ArtReview's Power 100: On the Concept and the Constitution of Power in Contemporary Art -- How Organisations Exercise Power Through Peer Review: A Case Study from Contemporary Art Music -- Art Perception and Power. A Plea for Relational Sociological Aesthetics -- Art Organisations and Their Visitors. About Standardisation Methods of Non-members -- Part II The arts and the power of social structures -- Equality, History, Tradition: Gender-Political Issues in the Oxford Collegiate Choral Scene -- "When She Talks, I Hear the Revolution": Pop Feminism -- Female Bodybuilding and Patriarchal Civilization. The Intrusion of a Practice in Sport into Artistic Fields and Visual Culture -- On the History of the Blues in the Field of Music Production in the United States Beginning in the 20th Century: A Field Theoretical Approach -- "It's Almost like Greeting"--Artistic Development Projects and Value Making of Traditional Art Practices in Ugandan Civil Society -- Part III The Arts and the Dominance of Politics and Economic Order -- Art Politics' Tendencies of the Documenta Exhibition Series -- The Aesthetic Subversion of Cultural Posters--Examples from the Former People's Republic of Poland -- "The Dead are Coming". Contemporary Interventionist Art, Political Beauty, and the Power of Reason -- Musical Interface Agendas. Musical Appropriation via Technological Pre-configuration -- Who Plays? an Analysis of Musicians' Global Mobility in the World Music Market |
| Summary |
The focus on concepts of power and domination in societal structures has characterized sociology since its beginnings. Max Webers definition of power as "imposing ones will on others" is still relevant to explaining processes in the arts, whether their production, imagination, communication, distribution, critique or consumption. Domination in the arts is exercised by internal and external rulers through institutionalized social structures and through beliefs about their legitimacy, achieved by defining and shaping art tastes. The complexity of how the arts relate to power arises from the complexity of the policies of artistic production, distribution and consumptionpolicies which serve to facilitate or hinder an aesthetic object from reaching its intended public. Curators, critics and collectors employ a variety of forms of cultural and artistic communication to mirror and shape the dominant social, economic and political conditions. Arts and Power: Policies in and by the Arts brings together diverse voices who position the societal functions of art in fields of domination and power, of structure and agencywhether they are used to impose hegemonic, totalitarian or unjust goals or to pursue social purposes fostering equal rights and grassroots democracy. The contributions in this volume are exploratory steps towards what we believe can be a more systematic, empirically and theoretically founded sociological debate on the arts and power. And they are an invitation to take further steps. The editors Prof. Dr. Lisa Gaupp, Professor of Cultural Institutions Studies at the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM) at the mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Hon. Prof. Dr. Alenka Barber-Kersovan, Honorary Professor of Sociology of Music at the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization at Leuphana University of Luneburg Prof. Dr. Volker Kirchberg, Professor of Sociology of the Arts at the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization at Leuphana University of Luneburg |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 15, 2022) |
| Subject |
Arts -- Political aspects
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Culture.
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Cultural policy.
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Arts -- Political aspects
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Cultural policy
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Culture
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gaupp, Lisa.
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Barber-Kersovan, Alenka.
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Kirchberg, Volker.
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| ISBN |
9783658374297 |
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3658374292 |
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