Engaging art : the next great transformation of America's cultural life / edited by Steven J. Tepper and Bill Ivey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Engaging art: what counts? / Steven J. Tepper, Yang Gao -- Comparing participation in the arts and culture / J. Mark Schuster -- Multiple motives, multiple experiences: the diversity of cultural participation / Francie Ostrower -- In and out of the dark: a theory about audience behavior from Sophocles to Spoken Word / Lynne Conner -- Faithful audiences: the intersection of art and religion / Robert Wuthnow -- Immigrant arts participation: a pilot study of Nashville artists / Jennifer C. Lena, Daniel B. Cornfield -- Artistic expression in the age of participatory culture: how and why young people create / Henry Jenkins, Vanessa Bertozzi -- Music, mavens, and technology / Steven Tepper, Eszter Hargittai, David Touve -- Audiences for the arts in the age of electronics / Joel L. Swerdlow -- Can there ever be too many flowers blooming? / Barry Schwartz -- By the numbers: lessons from radio / Gabriel Rossman -- Arts participation as cultural capital in the United States, 1982-2002: signs of decline? / Paul Dimaggio, Toqir Mukhtar -- Changing arts audiences: capitalizing on omnivorousness / Richard A. Peterson, Gabrienl Rossman -- The crisis in culture and inequality / Bonnie H. Erickson -- The next great transformation: leveraging policy and research to advance cultural vitality / Steven J. Tepper