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Steven Tepper, Uncle Henry is Wrong. There’s A Lot You Can Do With That Degree., Huffpost College
Thursday, September 8th, 2011Steven Tepper discusses findings from the SNAAP Project in Huffpost College, revealing that arts students are often happy and employed, despite the myths. About three million college students will approach graduation day wondering what the future holds. As if news about the sputtering economy and uncertain job prospects were not depressing enough, many will also More…
Steven Tepper and George D. Kuh, Let’s Get Serious About Cultivating Creativity, The Chronicle Review
Thursday, September 8th, 2011Steven Tepper and George D. Kuh discuss Snaap findings and the importance of cultivating creativity in their article, “Let’s Get Serious About Cultivating Creativity,” featured in The Chronicle Review. More…
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 and Douglas Dempster, Iron Cage of Accountability
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011Steven Tepper and Douglas Dempster’s essay on the net price versus value of an art school education is featured on Inside Higher Ed. But how much is too much to pay for a college education? Can American higher education be more accountable, transparent, and forthcoming with telling measures of value without withering in Weber’s iron More…
Elizabeth Long Lingo and Steven Tepper, The Creative Campus: Time for a “C” Change
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Elizabeth Long Lingo and Steven Tepper’s essay on the promise of the creative campus was recently featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “In the past few years, we’ve been hearing a lot of talk about fostering creativity, on campus and in society. Some college leaders claim to have found the secret formula, while others ask how to place creativity at the center of campus and academic life. The creative turn in higher education, however, remains only a series of ad hoc experiments.” More…
Terence E. McDonnell, Cultural Objects as Objects: Materiality, Urban Space, and the Interpretation of AIDS Campaigns in Accra, Ghana
Thursday, September 16th, 2010AIDS media lead unexpected lives once distributed through urban space: billboards fade, posters go missing, bumper stickers travel to other cities. The materiality of AIDS campaign objects and of the urban settings in which they are displayed structures how the public interprets their messages. Ethnographic observation of AIDS media in situ and interview data reveal More…
Bill Ivey, Expressive Life and the Public Interest, Arts Journal
Saturday, July 17th, 2010Late in my tenure as NEA chairman I awakened to the the truth that copyright extension, the DMCA, the demise of the USIA, and the 1996 Telecom Act had profoundly reshaped our cultural system, and no one from the “arts community” had been engaged in the runnup to these legislative, regulatory, and administrative transformations. What More…
Elizabeth Long Lingo, Nexus Work: Brokerage in Creative Projects
Friday, April 23rd, 2010This study examined how music producers manage their creative projects. We use the term “nexus work” to refer to individuals who are involved in synthesis or integration, rather than just communication or transference of ideas. With an ethnographic investigation of 23 independent music producers in the Nashville country music industry, we examined how producers in More…
Mark Pachucki, Jennifer Lena, and Steven Tepper, Creativity Narratives Among College Students: Sociability and Everyday Creativity, The Sociological Quarterly
Sunday, February 28th, 2010How do students perceive their creative contributions to college life? By analyzing narratives, we find that the majority of creativity is associated with everyday experiences and social interactions, in contrast to a popular and scholarly focus on extraordinary individual achievement in domains like art and science. We also find strong trends in sociability as students negotiate both “where they stand” with regards to those around them as well as “how they stand out” as individuals. More…
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…
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