TY - BOOK TI - Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts T2 - Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries SN - 9780367358884 PY - 2021/// PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Business & management KW - bicssc KW - Museology & heritage studies KW - Non-profitmaking organizations KW - action KW - alternative KW - analysis KW - approach KW - contemporary N1 - Free-to-read N2 - 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 UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29230 ER -