Scholarship has identified women as the ideal neoliberal subjects of late capitalism and, it is argued, that increasingly intensified practices of appearance and visibility are critical to their new labouring subjectivities. However, there is also a small but growing body of research on the...

The objective of this study is to explain the financial problems of the performing groups and to explore the implications of these problems for the future of the arts in the USA. Alternatives facing the arts are recommended and the costs and burdens that society is expected to shoulder are...

Purpose: This study explores what it means to be a mission-driven arts organisation (MDAO) in the UK. Drawing on literature relating to artistic risk and rupture, mission and vision, and arts participation, the purpose of this paper is to shed light on how Slung Low, a theatre organisation with a...

This book, which is divided into two sections, offers guidelines to fund raising and funding sources for arts organizations in the UK. Part 1 provides a guide to fund raising methods that can be applied to the arts, giving practical advice on planning, fund raising strategies and approaching...

The book presents a comprehensive overview of the design and development of a wide range of buildings for the performing arts in the UK. It identifies the stages involved in the development process and those involved in the decision making, and examines the essential links between demand in the...

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to embrace digital ways of producing work and reaching audiences in the hard-hit sectors such as performing arts. In the context of post-pandemic recovery, this paper explores the notion of digital performance and proposes a framework for...

Attendances at arts events in the UK are well documented. In any one month about 5% of the population will go to see a play, opera or dance performance. About 4% will take part in amateur music or drama. These percentages have hardly changed throughout the 1980s. The article documents attendances...

The reduction in UK Government support for the performing arts has resulted in a reduction in overall subsidies for music, dance and opera companies. While alternative sponsorship has been sought in the business world, income arising from this source has shown only modest growth over the last four...

Arts and cultural organizations are frequently accused of 'competitive myopia', i.e., of failing to realize that damaging competition can emerge as much from developments in the broader leisure and entertainment sectors (cinema, sports arenas, home entertainment, etc.) as from the activities of...

This paper draws on anthropological fieldwork of a civic parade in Manchester from 2010 to 2012 to argue for engaging with creativity as a process rather than an attribute of a particular sector or individual. It shows how the focus on funding and supporting 'creative industries' defined as '...