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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Reviews
“The volume is a welcome intervention that tracks the complex interdependencies of artistic practice and the infrastructures of its support: public, economic, and social. Most convincingly, the book serves as a vital call to arms for working artists to hone their own infrastructural imaginations and to reimagine their capacities for collaboratively performing policy … .” (Brandon Woolf, TDR: The Drama Review, Vol. 61 (2), 2017)
“Bonin-Rodriguez’s Performing Policy carries the reader through two decades of innovative responses to the 1990s culture wars. … The book offers something for just about everyone concerned with contemporary arts practice and policy. … Performing Policy is a unique, precocious, creative, bold, and meticulously researched contribution to our understanding of upheavals and innovation over two decades of American arts and culture.” (Ann Markusen, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Vol. 45 (4), November, 2015)
'In Performing Policy, author Paul Bonin-Rodriguez provides a much-needed perspective on the artist's role both in cultural policy and in 21st-century American society. Bonin-Rodriguez draws extensively from his own experiences as a performing artist, teacher, and scholar to elevate the role of artists in cultural policy and to document their importance in being at the 'policy table.' His book is timely and relevant, as expectations of artists' roles have been elevated.' - Neville K. Vakharia, Drexel University, USA
'The book is informative in its historical analysis of attempts by altruistic non-artists to build policy structures aimed at ensuring participation in, and support of, artists in our current culture' - Ken Tabachnick,Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA
'Writing from an engaging first-person perspective, Bonin-Rodriguez shares the modern history of arts and cultural policies and presents a progression of local- to national-level programs and initiatives, including Austin New Works Theatre Community, LINC, and ArtPlace America, as examples of how artists and groups have designed or are key players in the practice of cultural policy in the communities. The author investigates how policy questions have been formed, who forms them, and how these questions inform and influence artists and society-at-large. This salient book would well serve students of US arts and cultural policies.' - GIA Reader
About the author
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of Texas, Austin, USA. As a writer and performer, he researches the political origins and effects of contemporary arts and cultural policies and programs. His articles appear in Artivate: a Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Theatre Topics, and a forthcoming anthology on New WORLD Theater. His plays have been published in The Color of Theatre, Jump-Start Playworks, and Text and Performance Quarterly.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performing Policy
Book Subtitle: How Contemporary Politics and Cultural Programs Redefined U.S. Artists for the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137356505
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35649-9Published: 11 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47048-8Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35650-5Published: 11 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 208
Topics: Cultural Policy and Politics, Social Policy, Performing Arts, Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies, Screen Studies