Pitts, Stephanie aut Price, Sarah M. aut text xx Taylor & Francis 2021 monographic eng 1 online resource (246 p.) Drawing on unique multi-arts, multi-city scholarly research, Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts makes a timely and urgent contribution to debates about the place of arts and culture in contemporary society. 　 The authors critically interrogate the challenges of access, diversity, privilege and responsibility in contemporary art. Asking who benefits from, pays for and consumes the arts, the book highlights fresh, forward-thinking audience and organisational attitudes that show the potential of live arts engagement to contribute to engaged citizenship. Complemented by comparative global analysis, the cutting-edge insights in this book are relevant for interdisciplinary researchers across audience studies and beyond. Enhanced by a new framework for the understanding audience engagement, the book is relevant to scholars, policymakers and reflective practitioners across the spectrum of arts and cultural industries management. Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Business & management Museology & heritage studies Non-profitmaking organizations action alternative analysis approach contemporary 9780367358884 9780429342455 9780429342455 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29230 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29230 Free-to-read All rights reserved oapen 210210 20260305123948.0 doab29230