This series of articles takes an honest look at what exists in the name of dance education in the USA, why it exists and for whom it exists. The dance education referred to focuses on sequential and highly specialized training leading to a professional career. It is distinguished from what might be ...

Financing of ballet in the USA has evolved from a dependence on box office revenues to enjoyment of a diversified package of earned and unearned income. It is conceivable, especially in the case of business giving, that certain categories of culturally worthy arts organizations, namely the more...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth consideration of the color line in the US music market, much deeper treatment than that of a superficial social construct. Design/methodology/approach: Content analysis was performed using archives from the Performing Arts Division of the ...

This contribution is about the role of laboratories and workshops in the development of independent films (especially documentaries) in North American film festivals. These small, invited gatherings within the larger cultures of film festivals influence the development of the next generation of ...

Public folklore's dialogic engagement with communities incorporates methodologies for sharing representational and interpretive authority, collaborative programme development, mutually constructed modes of presentation and stakeholder participation in policy-making. While recognising that heritage...

Disco is associated commonly with the highly commercial and socially regressive Studio 54 and Saturday Night Fever. However, the movement that preceded, ran parallel and ultimately outlasted these articulations of the culture was queer in terms of its refusal of both straight normative and gay...

The paper represents a preliminary analysis of a segment of the cultural and arts sector of the New York City economy: theatre on Broadway. During the 1978-79 season the combined gross revenue for Broadway theatre and Broadway productions "on the road" was US$265 million, 5% of New York's total...

Museums in 2020 have gone through severe change and uncertainty as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, which in some cases has prompted opportunities for drawing new relationships with communities. This study follows two contemporary art museums with a focused commitment to co-creating with...

Zoo theater is used by zoos as a means to influence visitor feelings and knowledge gain about wildlife and environmental themes. This study examined whether and to what extent zoo theater fulfilled these aims by investigating its impact on affect and cognition. The study consisted of an in-depth...

This special issue on 'scenes' has three main objectives. The first is to collect empirical case studies of a variety of cultural scenes, showcasing the concept's utility across a range of domains of social life. Case studies presented include: alternative comedy in Toronto's Queen West...