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2008 Creative Campus Caucus Final Report, The Curb Center
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009The May 2008 Creative Campus Caucus was generously supported by The Mellon Foundation and was organized by the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt. The Caucus was conceived as an opportunity to take stock of the creative campus movement 4 years after the initial American Assembly convening on the relationship between More…
AIPF Background Report, Radio Deregulation and Consolidation: What is in the Public Interest?
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009This AIPF Background Report reviews the history of radio regulation, discusses key components of the “public interest” argument, and reviews conflicting economic evidence of policy outcomes. Finally, this paper will suggest options for possible next steps and further study. Read the full report: Radio Deregulation and Consolidation
Elizabeth Long Lingo, Assessing the Performing Arts Field’s Capacity for Collective Action
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009In 2008, the National Performing Arts Convention embarked on an ambitious goal: to bring together over 3700 professionals arts leaders across performing arts disciplines to learn from each other, identify common goals, and advance a field-wide agenda. Several questions faced leaders as they debated and dialogued at the Convention: Was collective action possible in the often fragmented and competitive performing arts field? What were the opportunities for action? More…
Bill Ivey on Expressive Life and the Public Interest, Demos
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Bill Ivey Demos essay, July 2009 The universally popular biblical paraphrase that ‘there is nothing new under the sun’ accurately characterises ‘expressive life’. The phrase does not advance anything brand new, but rather takes a fresh bite at the anthropological definition of culture, combining many elements in new ways; leaving others behind. I introduced expressive 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…
AIPF Report, Cultural Diplomacy and the National Interest: In Search of a 21st Century Perspective
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008This report begins by redefining “cultural diplomacy” in light of current events, and then reviews the history and current state of cultural diplomacy efforts. The report concludes by identifying key challenges, possible initiatives, and essential questions that, if engaged, can enable cultural institutions, government agencies, arts industries, policy makers, and private sector leaders to harness More…
AIPF Report: America’s Image Abroad: The UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention and U.S. Motion Picture Exports
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008This report discuss (I) why Canada, and then France, developed and supported the proposal for the Cultural Diversity Convention, (II) how Canada and France were able to attract broad support for their proposal, (III) the U.S. response to the Convention, and (IV) challenges the U.S. faced in attempting to win support for its position on More…
Curb Center Conference, Happiness, a High Quality of Life and the Role of Art and Art Making, May 31-June 2, 2007
Monday, September 8th, 2008From May 31 through June 2, 2007, the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy hosted a unique gathering of writers and thinkers at the Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in Tarrytown, New York. “Happiness and a High Quality of Life: The Role of Art and Art Making” explored two key questions: Do art and art-making have a special role in creating happiness and a high quality of life in Western society? If so, how should public policy be shaped and deployed to strengthen those connections? 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…
Elizabeth Long Lingo, 2007 Nashville Art Summit Report, The Curb Center
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Recent attention has focused on the transformative promise of “creative cities” to drive economic growth, strengthen global branding and enhance citizens’ quality of life. Yet research examining how to invest in a city’s creative capacity has only begun to explore how cities work as complex social systems. What are the factors that contribute to and define the vitality of a city’s creative ecology? What informal, below-the-radar points of leverage and insight can be tapped? Who are the unidentified agents of change and growth? As part of this project, Lingo synthesized findings from the 2007 Nashville Art Summit, a first-of-its-kind opportunity for arts leaders to reflect collectively on the general state of their art forms, identify best practices and opportunities for change, and examine the factors that might foster the vitality of the Nashville arts scene as a whole. More…
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