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The Diversity of Cultural Participation - Findings From A National Survey
"Taking a broad and inclusive definition of culture, the survey asked a random sample of 1,231 Americans about their participation patterns, motivations, and experiences. As is typical of such surveys, we asked people about their participation during the previous 12 months. The major innovation of this study was that we also asked people a set of questions about their most recently attended event: what they attended, why, where, with whom, and what experiences they had. This provided types of motivations, venues, and experiences to particular types of arts attendance in order to determine what people wanted from a particular kind of arts event and whether they felt the event actually delivered. The survey therefore permits us, for instance, to go beyond knowing that a desire to socialize is a common motivation for arts attendance. We can now ask whether or not a desire to socialize is common for all attendance or has greater or lesser importance for those who attend specific kinds of arts events."
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Studies & Reports 16 of 61
"The ability to do so distinguishes this survey from others, including the Survey of Public. Participation in the Arts, that ask about participation over the course of the past 12 months but do not ask about motivations and circumstances associated with particular types of arts attendance.
The different motivations and experiences prevalent among those attending different art forms turned out to be numerous indeed. Overarching statements about “cultural participation” that fail to take the differences among events into account can therefore be very misleading. Survey findings show this is clearly not the case, with direct implications for those who study or wish to expand cultural participation. The most fundamental implication of these findings is that arts research, policy, and management need to be reoriented to pay greater attention to the diversity of cultural participation—that is, the differences in what people attend and the differing motivations, expectations, and experiences that a ccompany particular types of arts participation. This survey represents a preliminary step toward demonstrating the diversity of motivations and circumstances that characterize cultural participation. We do not attempt to document the extent and nature of that diversity comprehensively. Instead, this report examines only live attendance and does not cover other modes of participation, such as production, participation through media, or reading. The evidence presented in this report indicates the pressing need for additional analyses that make diversity a central facet of examining other dimensions of participation." Le texte suivant provient d'un organisme qui n'est pas assujetti à la Loi sur les langues officielles et il est mis à la disposition du public dans la langue d'origine. The following material originates with an organization not subject to the Official Languages Act and is available on this site in the language in which it was written.
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