Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint

Taking the dichotomy of nonprofit “high culture” and for-profit “popular culture” into consideration, this volume assesses the relationship between social purpose in the arts and industrial organization.Di Maggio brings together some of the best works in several disciplines that focus on the significance of the nonprofit form for our cultural industries, the ways in which nonprofit arts organizations are financed, and the constraints that patterns of funding place on the missions that artists and trustees may wish to pursue. Showing how the production and distribution of art are organized in the United States, the book delineates the differing roles of nonprofit organizations, proprietary firms, and government agencies. In doing so, it brings to the surface some of the special tensions that beset arts management and policy, the way the arts are changing or are likely to change, and the policy alternatives “high culture” faces.Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint 1st Edition is written by Paul J. Di Maggio and published by Oxford University Press. ISBNs for Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts are 9780195364880, 0195364880 and the print ISBNs are 9780195040630, 0195040635.