This article explores the organizational practices of large dance companies in Europe. To capture intangible and intrinsic aspects, a multi-sited ethnographic study at the Vienna State Ballet and Berlin State Ballet was conducted. By putting artistic processes at the core of the inquiry, the...

The discussion paper focuses on whether opera festivals should be subsidized by public funds. The situation in the live performing arts sector in German speaking areas forms the context for discussion. The case of art support via the market is considered, and it is shown that, in some instances,...

Austria calls itself a "cultural nation" as the arts, the performing arts (theaters) and museums, in particular, play an important role in public debate. However, the question arises as to whether public cultural expenditures as an indication of the significance of cultural policy are really as...

This article introduces two examples of mediatized poetry to analyze the interrelation of live performance, video, and (digital) technology: i MIKE what i LIKE, a spoken word film by South African poet Kgafela oa Magogodi and filmmaker Jyoti Mistry, and Directions, a poem by Zimbabwean poet...

This article explores the retrospective cultural consecration of popular music in Austria. Examining two recent documentary projects, one focusing on Austropop, a Viennese popular music phenomenon of the early 1970s, and the other on the punk-inspired music scene of Linz in Upper Austria from late...

In the nineteenth century, Croatia was a semi-autonomous province in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Zagreb was the capital city and the national and political centre. Since most of the Croatian provincial governments in the so-called Dualist Period of Austro-Hungarian history...

Culture in Vienna has become more diverse with successive waves of immigration since the 1960 s, but Austrian cultural policies have been slow in picking up this trend. While the federal state has been focusing on maintaining traditional cultural institutions in Vienna such as the Staatsoper, the ...

The complexities of post-imperialist politics and the problems of creating effective political theatre in the aftermath of the Vietnam War are described. Comprising two parts, part 1 discusses American examples of the genre, such as MacBird and Vietrock, as well as representative works from the UK, ...

This paper discusses the research use of creative workers' publicly available self-presentations such as documentaries or social media posts. In so doing it contributes to our understanding of how creative workers might fruitfully be researched. The paper, firstly, argues that self-presentations...

This paper sets out to deepen our understanding of the relationship between popular music and cultural heritage and to delineate the practices of popular music as cultural heritage. The paper illustrates how the term has been mobilised by a variety of actors, from the public to the private sector,...