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Steven Tepper, Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Tepper makes a strong argument that arts protests are good for democracy and not simply collateral damage from the so‐called culture wars. He suggests that the art world has too often tried to silence its critics and that a 21st century approach to arts conflicts requires balancing the needs of artists with the needs of the community. He argues that art is most relevant when people care enough to fight over it. Communities are healthiest when people have avenues for expressing their hopes and fears. Fights over art provide the democratic space to negotiate differing views of community life and community identity. More…
Steven Tepper Podcast: Engaging Art
Friday, September 17th, 2010In this podcast, Steven Tepper talks about how we arrived at this new era of “Engaging Art,” who the winners and losers are, and what widely held beliefs about participation in cultural life need to be jettisoned.
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Steven Tepper and Eszter Hargittai, Pathways to music exploration in a digital age, Poetics
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009This paper looks at the largely unexplored terrain of how young people find music that is new to them in an environment with an unprecedented number of possibilities. Digital media has changed not only how artists create and distribute content, but also how listeners find and access new material. The new options exist in the context of older More…
Steven Tepper, Stop the Beat: Quiet Regulation and Cultural Conflict, Sociological Forum
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009This article explores a recent conflict over the youth phenomenon known as ‘‘raving’’ in the City of Chicago. By interviewing participants involved in the conflict, I set out to understand the extent to which the crackdown on raves in Chicago was similar to earlier social reactions to jazz, comic books, rock and roll, and Dead Head culture, as More…
Steven Tepper, Keynote Address, 2007 Society for the Arts in Healthcare Annual Conference
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Throughout the 20th century, the arts moved from the home and hearth to museums, symphony halls, television screens and sound recordings. They became professionalized and commodified. In the process, we lost our “back stage” access to creativity. Art products and presentations were available to us in their final, polished form. We were expected to admire and celebrate their More…
Steven Tepper, Unfamiliar Objects in Familiar Places: The Public Response to Art-in-Architecture, The International Journal of Cultural Policy
Thursday, September 30th, 2004Public art has been an important part of America’s experiment in democracy since its founding. From Horatio Greenough’s half-naked sculpture of George Washington in a toga and sandals, intended for the new Capitol Rotunda, to Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial, public art in America has been celebrated, censored, deplored and debated. In the 18th century, a More…
Steven Tepper, Fiction Reading in America, Poetics
Thursday, September 30th, 2004The gender gap in fiction reading has been largely ignored by sociologists and scholars in the field of reading research. This paper investigates three primary explanations for why more women read fiction than men, including: the influence of childhood socialization and gender role stereotypes, differences in cognition and prose literacy and differences in work status and available free time. More…
Jason Kaufman and Steven Tepper, Groups or Gatherings? Sources of Political Engagement in 19th Century American Cities, International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
Thursday, September 30th, 2004There is broad agreement that citizen participation is critical for successful democracy. Recently, scholars have linked such political participation with the notion of social capital—community-level resources, such as trust, norms, and networks, that foster collective action. Much uncertainty remains regarding the sources of social capital, however. Here we examine two different features of community life that are believed to nurture More…
Steven Tepper, Setting Agendas and Designing Alternatives: Policymaking and the Strategic Role of Meetings, Review of Policy Research
Thursday, September 30th, 2004This paper investigates the role of strategic forums—such as special commissions, task forces, roundtables,working groups, summits—in the policy process. Reviewing prominent theories about policymaking, the author suggests ways in which strategic forums might fit within these frameworks as an analytically distinct policy lever. The paper examines existing literature on such forums, and identifies characteristics of “meetings that matter”—those More…
Steven Tepper, Creative Assets and the Changing Economy, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society
Monday, September 30th, 2002Many arts advocates and policymakers have argued that certain changes in the economy (globalization, digitalization, the rise of the “knowledge” worker, the boom in intellectual property, changes in leisure consumption) are having a catalytic effect on art and culture. In particular, the arts are heralded as engines of economic growth and development. Scholars and pundits More…
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