Audience Engagement and the Role of Arts Talk in the Digital Era [Hardcover]

This book offers readers an understanding of the theoretical framework for the concept of Arts Talk, provides historical background and a review of current thinking about the interpretive process, and, most importantly, provides ideas and insights into building audience-centered and audience-powered conversations about the arts.Preamble: We the Audience PART I: DEFINING ARTS TALK 1. Roadmap to Pleasure 2. Eras of Social Interpretation 3. Geographies of Social Interpretation PART II: FACILITATING ARTS TALK 4. Audience Learning Communities 5. Fundamentals of Productive Talk 6. Arts Talk Conclusion: The Pleasures of Interpretation in the Live | Digital Era

Conners book is an elegant and well-organized combination of historical records and contemporary culture phenomena. Based on theoretical analysis, Conner reaches back into history and continues onwards into contemporary live and digital culture. The book is designed to be read and used by a wide range of arts workers, arts administrators, artists, arts educator, arts students, and arts funders. Conners book also offers value to a general public who longs for the chance to explore their arts experience. (Yurong Huang, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Vol. 45, November, 2015)

Lynne Conners monograph will be of great interest to scholars working in the field of cultural management, museum studies and sociology of culture, but also to professionals working in museums, as educators and curators. & Lynne Conners monograph provides an important contribution to processes of meaning making in the arts. & Conners practical questions and guidelines are useful for arts workers and art lovers alike to stimulate inclusion and active participation. (Christian Morgner, Participations, Vol. 12 (2), November, 2015)

Conner is unique in leaning on present-day tenets of cognitive science as a tool for enhancing understanding of pleasure. Summing Up: Recommended. GradulN