Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life

By Tepper Ivey/ and Bill Ivey

Engaging Art explores what it means to participate in the arts in contemporary society - from museum attendance to music downloading. Drawing on the perspectives of experts from diverse fields (including Princeton scholars Robert Wuthnow and Paul DiMaggio; Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice; and MIT scholars Henry Jenkins and Mark Schuster), this volume analyzes key trends involving technology, audience demographics, religion, and the rise of "do-it-yourself" participatory culture. Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and independently carried out by the Curb Center at Vanderbilt University, Engaging Art offers a new framework for understanding the momentous changes impacting America's cultural life over the past fifty years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415960428
• ISBN13: 9780415960427
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"