Cultural Participation
Trends since the Middle Ages
Published on 8. July 1993
Book
Hardback
261 pages
978-90-272-2219-0 (ISBN)
Description
Culture is studied in this collection, not merely as a set of products, but in terms of the involvement of individuals and groups in the making and using of such products. A wide range of activities, from the reading and writing of poetry to watching soccer on television, is surveyed by an international group of scholars from diverse disciplines: cultural history, literary studies, sociology. Topics include the social distribution of cultural activities, populism and elitism in modern aesthetics, the nature of cultural competence and the channels through which it is acquired, the impact of electronic media on traditional modes of culturalinvolvement, the role of public institutions such as churches, schools, and libraries in stimulating participation, and the relationship between cultural participation and socialization.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2219-0 (9789027222190)
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Content
1. Foreword (by Fokkema, Douwe W.); 2. Introduction (by Rigney, Ann); 3. The Benefits of Clergie: Laymen and Clerics as Participants in the Literary Culture of the Low Countries around 1300 (by Gerritsen, W.P.); 4. The Uses of the Past (14th-16th Centuries): The Invention of a Collective History and Its Implications for Cultural Participation (by Coleman, Janet); 5. Cultural Participation as Stimulated by the Seventeenth-Century Reformed Church (by Schenkeveld-Van der Dussen, Maria A.); 6. The Ability to Select: The Growth of the Reading Public and the Problem of Literary Socialization in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (by Kloek, Joost J.); 7. Creating an Instrument of Cultural Transmission: Primary-School Education in the Netherlands, 1800-1900 (by Tijn, Theo van); 8. Learning over Class: The Case of the Central European Ethos (by Nemoianu, Virgil); 9. The Flaneur and the Production of Culture (by Parkhurst Ferguson, Priscilla); 10. The Increasing Autonomy of Literary Institutions in Belgium in the Late Nineteenth Century (by Vervliet, Raymond); 11. The Public as a Constituent of Poetics: Some Fluctuations in Postwar Dutch Poetry (by Brems, Hugo); 12. Soccer, U.S.A.: Some Reflections on American Mass Culture (by Bertens, Hans); 13. Reading in Social and Cultural Life: Soviet Phenomena (by Stelmakh, Valeriya); 14. Cultural Inequalities in Cross-national Perspective: A Secondary Analysis of Survey Data for the 1980s (by Ultee, Wout C.); 15. The Gentrification of a Rearguard: An Attempt to Explain Changes in the Extent and Composition of the Arts Public in the Age of Television (by Knulst, Wim); 16. The Text-analytical Study of Art Criticism: A Model for Establishing the Complexity and Specificity of Cultural Communication (by Vanbergen, Johan); 17. Culture as a Network of Socially Constructed Realities (by Hejl, Peter M.); 18. Contributors; 19. Index