Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts Studies in Mission and Constraint [Hardcover]

Taking the dichotomy of nonprofit high culture and for-profit popular culture into consideration, this volume assesses the relationship between social purpose in the arts and industrial organization. DiMaggio brings together some of the best works in several disciplines that focus on the significance of the nonprofit form for our cultural industries, the ways in which nonprofit arts organizations are financed, and the constraints that patterns of funding place on the missions that artists and trustees may wish to pursue. Showing how the production and distribution of art are organized in the United States, the book delineates the differing roles of nonprofit organizations, proprietary firms, and government agencies. In doing so, it brings to the surface some of the special tensions that beset arts management and policy, the way the arts are changing or are likely to change, and the policy alternatives high culture faces.

[A] landmark volume....Deserve[s] a special place on the bookshelves of scholars and practitioners interested in this field. --Public Administration Review

A richly diverse collection, significant for its consideration of a variety of historical, sociological, and economic factors contributing to the production of cultural goods. --American Journal of Sociology

This book is a treasure. A compendium of ideas, a collection of analyses and research discoveries, it should be invaluable to arts administrators, policy makers, funders, and to artists themselves. --Foundation News

This book gives more than its title promises. Besides the detailed multidisciplinary analysisof the role and significane of the non-profit enterprise in the arts, it also offers a broad overview of all the possible sources and ways of financing culture....Any researcher or practitioner interested in either culturer or non-profit institutions will find in this book many pieces of useful information and manls.