During the period 1972-1999, the number of Norwegian subsidized theatres was more than doubled, while attendance was largely unchanged. Mainly due to new institutions established during this period, the number of performances increased by about 45%. With about the same total attendance, this means...

Comparative studies of cultural policy commonly emphasize the way in which states treat the autonomy of the arts. Such studies often claim that liberal states promote autonomy, while social democratic states promote more external, instrumental values, such as solidarity, universalism and equality....

In this study, we investigate collaboration efforts between leaders at schools of music and performing arts and leaders at compulsory schools, as well as the drivers behind the initiation and maintenance of such collaborative work. One driver is an existing concern about the lack of qualified music ...

This special issue has grown out of an international research collaboration between the UK and Norway which was established in 2012 to examine how the arts may be usefully applied to the health and care sector. The issue includes material relating to Sweden, Denmark and Norway and recognizes...

This study on participation in cultural events and use of the media in Norway during 1991 is based on interviews with persons aged 9 to 79 years old. Cinemas, sports events and libraries were found to be the most visited; about 60% of the population had attended one of these in the last 12 months....

The Sri Lanka Norway Music Cooperation (2009-2018) was launched to 'stimulate the performing arts in Sri Lanka, thus contributing to the peace and reconciliation process' in the aftermath of almost three decades of civil war between the Tamil minority and Sinhala majority populations of the island. ...

This paper describes digital cultural policy as a slow and ambivalent or reluctant revolution in a policy field. In investigates how cultural policy has gradually been affected by digitalization in the field of cultural production. I argue that digital cultural policy has developed in a sedimentary ...

This issue focuses on the role educators are playing in changing literary museums today. The issue begins with a contribution which explores an interactive game for school children focusing on language diversity, which was developed by the Garborg Center in Norway. The second article describes how...

Why are there relatively few successful artists from a migrant background in Norway? Based on a study of artists of known migrant backgrounds, we explore this question from the artists' points of view. We analyze both their social and cultural background, and the mechanisms of exclusion and...

The article discusses whether we are approaching the end of public cultural policy in Western democracies, because contemporary cultural policy is not adapted to major transformation processes in contemporary societies. I discuss seven different challenges/scenarios that public cultural policy has...