The transformative potential of the arts and culture in sustaining rural futures

AbstractThis article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement on the arts and cultural sector in the United States, placing the 2020 crises in the context of the United States’s historically decentralized approach to supporting the arts and culture. After providing an overview of the United States’s private, locally focused history of arts funding, we use this historical lens to analyze the combined effects of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement on a single metropolitan area – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We trace a timeline of key events in the national and local pandemic response and the reaction of the arts community to the Black Lives Matter movement, arguing that the nature of these intersecting responses, and their fallout for the arts and cultural sector, stem directly from weaknesses in the United States’s historical approach to administering the arts. We suggest that, in the context of widespread organizational vulnerability caused by the pandemic, the United States’s decentralized approach to funding culture also undermines cultural organizations’ abilities to respond to issues of public relevance and demonstrate their civic value, threatening these organizations’ legitimacy.

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Occupations and Professionalism in Art and Culture

Professions and Professionalism ◽

10.7577/pp.1328 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Lennart G. Svensson

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Creative Industries ◽

Special Issue ◽

Theoretical Concepts ◽

Academic Field ◽

Emotional Labour ◽

The Arts ◽

Arts And Culture ◽

Art And Culture

The article introduces the topic of this special issue on artists and professionalism from the perspective of the sociology of the arts and culture, in order to demonstrate how the contributions significantly develop studies of professions in general. Some theoretical concepts are defined and discussed: culture, arts, occupations, professions, status, field, symbolic and social capital, emotional labour, and reversed economy. An illustration is used to demonstrate pricing in arts and what may explain it. There is a focus on the field of art with a brief comparison to the academic field. In this issue we find studies on artists, authors, and theatre actors, which provide significant contributions to these themes in theories and studies of professions.Keywords: creative industries, creative occupations, professions, status, field, symbolic and social capital

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Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran Berbasis Etnis Sumatera Utara

Virtuoso: Jurnal Pengkajian dan Penciptaan Musik ◽

10.26740/vt.v3n2.p84-88 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 84

Author(s):

Uyuni Widiastuti ◽

Adina Sastra Sembiring ◽

Mukhlis Mukhlis

Keyword(s):

Traditional Music ◽

Art Teachers ◽

Instructional Media ◽

Music Learning ◽

Cultural Arts ◽

The Arts ◽

Musical Works ◽

Arts And Culture ◽

Development Approach ◽

North Sumatra

The development of instructional media in this paper is the development of learning media used in learning Arts and Culture class X High School in Pangururan District, Samosir Regency. The learning media developed are invincible with the syllabus in class X, namely "presentation of musical works". The objectives of this study were to: (1) develop traditional Karo music learning videos; (2) Developing Karo traditional music learning textbooks. This research uses a Research & Development or research and development approach. The development of this learning media will be used by art teachers who are members of the MGMP (subject teacher deliberation) for Cultural Arts, especially art teachers in Pangururan District, Samosir Regency. The research conducted resulted in the development of instructional media in the form of learning videos for learning traditional Karo music and textbooks for learning traditional Karo music. The learning media developed in the form of learning videos for traditional Karo music includes the technique of playing Karo traditional music which is incorporated in the kulcapi drum ensemble whose instruments consist of kulcapi, keteng-keteng, and mangkuk. The next learning media is in the form of a textbook which contains the techniques for playing the kulcapi drum in the song Piso Surit and Terang Bulan. The two learning media that have been developed help the arts and culture teachers in carrying out the ethnicity of the ethnic North Sumatra.Keywords: Development, Learning Media, Ethnicity, North Sumatra

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Realizing the transformative potential of conservation through the social sciences, arts and humanities

10.31230/osf.io/c536p ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Nathan Bennett ◽

Robin Roth

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

Status Quo ◽

Conservation Practices ◽

Arts And Humanities ◽

Transformative Potential ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

Conservation Actions

Conservation actions most often occur in peopled seascapes and landscapes. As a result, conservation decisions cannot rely solely on evidence from the natural sciences, but must also be guided by the social sciences, the arts and the humanities. However, we are concerned that too much of the current attention is on research that serves an instrumental purpose, by which we mean that the social sciences are used to justify and promote status quo conservation practices. The reasons for engaging the social sciences, as well as the arts and the humanities, go well beyond making conservation more effective. In this editorial, we briefly reflect on how expanding the types of social science research and the contributions of the arts and the humanities can help to achieve the transformative potential of conservation.

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Giving voice to the street: a case study of Toronto’s Street Voices magazine

10.32920/ryerson.14643930 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Miranda Feasey

Keyword(s):

Mixed Method ◽

Street Youth ◽

Major Research ◽

Print Medium ◽

Transformative Potential ◽

The Arts ◽

The Impact ◽

Method Approach

This Major Research Paper investigates Street Voices Magazine as an instrument and communications tool to engage and empower street youth in Toronto. The following questions guided my study: What are the ways in which Street Voices Magazine gives voice to the marginalized and silenced? Why is Street Voices Magazine an appropriate medium for connecting with street youth? A mixed-method approach was used to analyze the texts and images in three issues of the magazine to determine the effectiveness of the print medium, what these texts and images suggest about the motivations of the contributors, and whether the magazine meets its objective of serving street youth. The study suggests that the transformative potential of the arts, the role of the magazine in fostering in the contributors the identity of an artist, and the lack of other spaces for expression are significant themes that underpin Street Voices Magazine’s appeal and effectiveness. The study also leads to suggestions for further research, which could improve an understanding of this diverse demographic and confirm the impact of Street Voices Magazine.

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