How the arts impact communities [Recurs electrònic] : an introduction to the literature on arts impact studies / prepared by Joshua Guetzkow for the "Taking the Measure of Culture Conference"

By:

Guetzkow, Joshua

Contributor(s):

Princeton University. Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies

Series: Working paper (Princeton) ; 20Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University. Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, 2002Description: 27 p. : digital, fitxer PDF (387,04 Kb)Online resources:

E-Link

Summary: As private and public agencies seek innovative ways to employ the arts to improve and strengthen communities, they have become increasingly interested in assessing the impact of their investments. In this context, arts advocates and researchers have made a variety of ambitious claims about how the arts impact communities. These claims, however, are made problematic by the many complications involved in studying the arts. (...) Of course, there are no authoritative answers to these questions, since different research questions require different definitions. And as one might expect, arts impact studies employ these heterogeneous definitions in a variety of combinations. Given this array of definitions, how would we go about measuring the impact of the arts on communities? (...) In this paper, I will lay out some of the issues that need to be addressed when thinking about and studying how the arts impact communities, in addition to providing an introduction to the literature on arts impact studies. I begin discussing the mechanisms through which the arts are said to have an impact. Following this is a discussion of key theoretical and methodological issues involved in studying the impact of the arts. I conclude by suggesting areas for further research and reflecting on the limitations of past research. (Font: Introduction)

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
e-Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Repositori digital	General	E040088	Accés al document	1	Available		E040088

Introduction -- Mechanisms: Claim. The arts increase social capital and community cohesion ; Claim. The arts have a beneficial impact on the economy ; Claim. The arts are good for individuals -- Theoretical and methodological issues: Definitions ; The Problem of Aggregation ; Selection Problems ; Lack of Appropriate Comparisons ; Negative Externalities ; Lack of Adequate Data ; Specification of Context Effects and Intervening Factors -- Conclusion -- References

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer