The Value of Art and Culture in Everyday Life: Towards an Expressive Cultural Democracy. Issue 5 (19th October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Juncker, Beth; Balling, Gitte
• Is Part Of: Journal of arts management, law, and society. Volume 46:Issue 5(2016)
• Page Start: 231
• Page End: 242
• Publication Date: 2016-10-19
• Subjects: Arts management -- arts participation -- cultural policy -- expressive cultural democracy -- notions of art and culture; Arts -- Periodicals; Performing arts -- Periodicals; Performing arts -- Law and legislation -- Periodicals; Art and state -- Periodicals; 700
• DOI: 10.1080/10632921.2016.1225618
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1063-2921

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Ever since the earliest forms of mass media, the dichotomy of mass culture/high culture has been a topic of debate. The concept of cultural democracy has developed as a way to acknowledge a variety of cultural activities. Despite attempts to develop a broader understanding of culture, cultural policy still seems to reproduce the dichotomies, and to value one over the other. In this article, we would argue for an expanded understanding of cultural democracy, which may serve as a starting point for a turn of perspective of arts advocacy and cultural policy—the perspective we call an expressive cultural democracy.