The focus of this special issue is to explore and illustrate the differences between two sets of terminology: Culture and development. Cultural development. It explains historically how these terminologies emerged and how they are evidenced by policies, projects, and activities around the world. (from abstract)

This article asks: If nonprofit performing arts organizations and the artists they represent are legally, socially, and morally bound to serve the public as a whole, what implications should such service have for the recruiting and staffing of their managerial personnel? To what extent are the recruiting strategies of nonprofit performing arts organizations centered on their public missions of being public for all? What would account for the low levels of minority managers in the arts? (from abstract)

This book seeks to foster collaboration between European museums and arts-related fields, adult education and their respective diverse communities.

This publication may be a useful tool for the following audiences: The public seeking information about arts opportunities for youth and adults with disabilities, including the disability community, the arts community, parents and educators of children with disabilities and organizations serving people with disabilities; Disability and arts organizations, and funding institutions interested in collaborating with VSA affiliates; Individuals and organizations interested in volunteer opportunities through the VSA network; VSA affiliates interested in learning about programs conducted by other

It is late in the afternoon, and Bill James, an incumbent county commissioner for Mecklenburg County, N.C. is talking my ear off. I'm not opposed to arts, James says over the phone with evident conviction. My kid takes ballet lessons.

Marketing in museums and performing arts organizations is in a period of major reassessment. I explored the role of marketing in museums and performing arts organizations over the last twenty years through the examination of 128 marketing articles in seven key international journals. (from abstract)

A directory to organizations that help artists and a document which outlines organizational activity by artists. Essays and testimonies about general trends in the arts community follow.

A new Australian Council resource for arts organizations which focuses specifically on the development of non-English speaking background audiences. In doing so it brings together two key concerns: the Council's Arts for a Multicultural Australia policy and our ongoing commitment to audience development, in particular marketing skills development. (from abstract)

Given the challenges of any comparative analysis, the particular nuances involved in the analysis of cultural policy, and the differences in political culture and the social construction of art in Japan and the , I can only present a preliminary discussion of cultural policies in the two countries. My focus is on identitifying key systematc assumptions and characteristics and then exploring their policy implications. (from abstract)

In the following I provide an overview of French and American systems of media promotion and regulation and an analysis of the political implications of the similarities and differences they exhibit. (from abstract)