Public financing of the arts in England

The paper describes the method, amount and composition of public financing of the arts and heritage services in England during the 1990s. This offers the background to a discussion of how far the rationale for government financing for such services can rely on arguments derived from welfare economics. The presence of ‘market failure’ has been widely accepted by successive governments and their advisers, but attempts to remove it have encountered the familiar problems of ensuring allocative and technical efficiency when production subsidies are the main policy instrument. Special attention is devoted to the policy dilemmas that are likely to arise in the years ahead in the performing arts, heritage and broadcasting.     

What Determines Young People's Engagement with Performing Arts Events?

This survey-based cross-sectional investigation explores the socio-demographic, school and student, extracurricular, and family factors associated with Australian high school-aged adolescents’ attendance at live theater, music, and dance events (receptive arts participation) outside of school. Hierarchical multiple linear regression showed that gender, age, and socio-economic status were associated with attendance at performing arts events. Attendance was also linked to theater visits with the school and current study in the performing arts. Out-of-school correlates were involvement in a drama group/class, family attendance at live performances, and sporting attendance. Finally, multilevel modeling indicated that the bulk of variance in attendance patterns resided at the student/residual level rather than school level. Findings hold implications for schools, education systems, and arts-based organizations as they seek to enhance high school-aged adolescents’ development and engagement with the performing arts.     

“品牌战略”与当代中国武术发展路径选择

从品牌战略的视角对中国武术发展进行全面剖析。中国武术存在的突出问题如下：竞技武术难度过高,不易普及推广;传统武术缺乏统一教材,推广时杂乱无序;段位制武术不易科学量化。中国武术进一步发展,必须塑造武术品牌、建立武术标准化、以连锁式经营来推广。     

Identity Brokerage and Nonprofit Community Building

Scholars have increasingly approached organizations as complex systems with indeterminate, shifting boundaries. Boundaries in many nonprofit organizations may be especially fluid, given the heterogeneity of stakeholders and highly multiplexed relational and value characteristics involved in constructing identity. The present study frames nonprofit organizations as complex organizations seeking to build communities of legitimacy. Within these communities they construct their identity through a combination of boundary setting, or perceptions of the organization and in what ways it is distinct from other organizations and communities, and relationship building, through both interpersonal contacts and socially mediated interaction. These dimensions combine to allow organizations to identify and bridge structural holes in the larger network in which they are embedded, through processes of identity brokerage. These mechanisms have significant implications for driving growth and engagement in nonprofit organizations. In support of this theoretical model, the article describes a mixed-methods research study involving a nascent arts organization in a large U.S. city.     

Examining the Influence of the Individual in Arts Sponsorship Decisions

Support from the corporate sector is an important revenue source for many nonprofit organizations. In this article, we consider individual-level influence within the decision-making processes of companies as they make decisions concerning nonprofit arts sponsorship. These decisions have often been linked to the influence of a single high-level executive, and the research contained here seeks to better understand the role of the individual in influencing these decisions. Through qualitative multiple-case research the authors find that a single individual, termed the advocate, is in fact influential. Furthermore, the advocate is determined not by their title or official ranking but by their possession of expert power, a combination of knowledge and the belief of others in that knowledge. In addition, how individuals influence these decisions relates to their application not of gut instinct, but of informed intuition. The article closes in suggesting new perspectives that will assist in better understanding this role.     

艺术视角下的安塞腰鼓表演艺术分类

本文从艺术学、历史学的角度对各种场合的腰鼓表演进行分析,挖掘腰鼓中的艺术因素,揭示腰鼓表演艺术的本质,并对腰鼓表演艺术在艺术角度下进行分类。结果表明:可分为视觉腰鼓表演艺术、视听觉腰鼓表演艺术、视听腰鼓表演艺术和想象腰鼓表演艺术四类。以期为我国腰鼓表演艺术理论与实践的发展提供理论依据。     

The influence of external reference price strategies in a nonprofit arts organization's “pay‐what‐you‐want” setting

Nonprofit arts organizations face conflicting objectives to balance—or more specifically, to create—artistic and educational value and to generate financial income from various sources. Pay‐what‐you‐want (PWYW), a participative pricing mechanism where services have no fixed price and customers actively decide what to pay, is a novel pricing mechanism and is of high interest for organizations and researchers alike. Based on the concepts of loss aversion and gain, this study presents a field experiment to test the effects of different PWYW pricing strategies on the amount of money paid by visitors of a German photo biennial. Explicitly, the provisions of minimum, maximum, and suggested external reference prices are compared to a setting with no external reference prices. We test the derived hypotheses, discuss the results, and provide implications for future research, as well as for the management of nonprofit arts organizations.     

高校武术课教学改革探析

促进武术运动在高校的开展对于学校体育乃至全民健身有着十分深远的意义,本文主要从探讨分析困扰高校武术教学发展的因素来提高高校武术教学水平。     

高校文科院系教师量化考核指标体系研究

分析现有的高校教师考核办法,针对文科院系自身特点,结合实际应用研究,提出了高校文科类院系教师考核指标量化办法。     

浅谈高职院校产学视角下的装饰艺术

装饰艺术涉及各个产业的艺术设计,具有广阔的社会与经济基础,同时又具有不断发展的前沿性。装饰艺术设计已不是传统的文化价值意义,而是与现代社会经济市场息息相关的学科,它将改变一个国家的创新设计能力,提升民族多元化社会形态的价值观念。在此意义上,高校的装饰艺术学科也因此改革,与市场接轨,产学结合。