Arts and Cultural Management

<p><em>Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field</em> opens a conversation that is much needed for anyone identifying arts management or cultural management as primary areas of research teaching or practice. In the evolution of any field arises the need for scrutiny reflection and critique as well as to display the advancements and diversity in approaches and thinking that contribute to a discipline’s forward progression. While no one volume could encompass all that a discipline is or should be a representational snapshot serves as a valuable benchmark.</p><p></p><p>This book is addressed to those who operate as researchers scholars and practitioners of arts and cultural management. Driven by concerns about quality of life globalization development of economies education of youth the increasing mobility of cultural groups and many other significant issues of the twenty-first century governments and individuals have increasingly turned to arts and culture as means of mitigating or resolving tough policy issues. For their growth arts and culture sectors depend on people in positions of leadership and management who play a significant role in the creation production exhibition dissemination interpretation and evaluation of arts and culture experiences for publics and policies. Less than a century old as a formal field of inquiry however arts and cultural management has been in flux since its inception. What is arts and cultural management? remains an open question. A comprehensive literature on the discipline as an object of study is still developing. This State of the Discipline offers a benchmark for those interested in the evolution and development of arts and cultural management as a branch of knowledge alongside more established disciplines of research and scholarship.</p>