[Community Book] ↠ Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose PDF by James Bau Graves ½ eBook or Kindle ePUB free

• Title : Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose
• Author : James Bau Graves
• Rating : 4.50 (742 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-6-7
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 272 Pages
• Asin : 0252072081
• Language : English

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. Drawing upon a range of scholarship and illustrative anecdotes from his own experiences with cultural programs in ethnically diverse communities, Graves expl

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. 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.. 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

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