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Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose

Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose

zoom enlarge 		Author: James Bau Graves
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9

ISBN: 0252072081
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.470973
EAN: 9780252072086
ASIN: 0252072081

Publication Date: November 23, 2004
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Condition: Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2004 1st printing 256 pages, 6 x 9, large format trade paperback CONDITION: GOOD, light underlining notations on approx. only 26 pages o/w a solid copy, good condition.
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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. 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. 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.

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4 out of 5 stars A little bit academic, but a strong work on the topic   June 7, 2008
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I read this book after hearing Graves on WFMT's Critical Thinking. The book isn't a beach read, but it is well researched and provides a great idea -- returning the arts to cultural strata below the wealthy and the elite -- with plenty of support for what he is saying and why.

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