Aims: Recent reviews have demonstrated broad links between performing arts participation (e.g. music-making; dancing; acting) and receptive engagement (e.g. listening to music; attending a dance/theatre performance) and improved health, including reduced disease and mortality risk. However, no...

Despite evidence of improved overall efficiency recent work provides evidence that diseconomies for larger performing arts organizations exist. Research suggests that the larger the organization the higher the administrative and wage costs. This paper presents an analysis of the relationship...

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 longitudinal research examines US symphony orchestra sector organizations to determine individual efficiencies in allocating resources (donations, governmental/private funding, etc.) for desirable outputs (concerts, educational programs, community outreach). It provides researchers...

Research presented in this report focuses on data obtained through the 1982 and 1985 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts and relates to musical theatre, operetta, and opera attendance. The focus was on findings which might help opera or musical theatre organizations attract and understand...

Purpose - This research is the first to examine disruptive marketing, a subset perspective of entrepreneurial marketing, and unintended consequences of marketing in the context of the nonprofit arts sector. Design/methodology/approach - This exploratory research has two components: development of a ...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine market segments within the broader category of occasional patrons of the performing arts. While similarities between these segments exist, important distinctions are also apparent. Design/methodology/approach - The authors surveyed 347 performing...

Arts education is seen as a key to a lifelong learning, leisure activity, and a mutually beneficial relationship between performing arts and the host community. A model of adult education appears to function in the outreach programmes of three Columbus (Ohio) performing arts organizations. The...

This paper examines to what extent art education, prices and standard socioeconomic characteristics influence attendance at professional performing arts events (theatre, classical music, opera, ballet and dance) in the USA. It distinguishes the influence such variables have on whether a person...

Women and men differ in their tastes for the performing arts. Gender differences have been shown to persist after accounting for socioeconomic factors. This paper uses this difference to shed light on how decisions on arts consumption are made in households. Based on relatively recent theoretical...