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This definitive text explores the complex relationship between participation in the arts and participation in politics in America. It traces the American perspective on the arts through the evolution of democratic theory and the historical link with participation in the arts. How the arts affect a political system is explored, along with the question of whether a political system can be beneficial or detrimental to the arts.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Mary Rose Oakar
Preface
Democracy and the Arts: An American Perspective
Democratic Theory: General Considerations
Participation in the Arts: A Historical Perspective
Participatory Democracy and the Arts
Democracy and the Arts in Ancient Greece
Nineteenth-Century American Democracy and the Arts
Twentieth-Century American Democracy
Participation in the Arts: Mid-Twentieth-Century America
The Role of Participation
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

TERRI LYNN CORNWELL is Director of Communications and Development for Cleveland State University's Levin College of Urban Affairs and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Studies. She has also served as Legislative Director for the Congressional Arts Caucus in Washington, D.C.