The argument of Who Reads Literature? is clear. The publishing industry in the sells lots of books, over 2 billion each year during the mid-1980s. Publishing is an industry that makes and responds to market forces. High school students also receive more formal training in literature than they do in the other arts. The result is a nation in which a majority of the citizens read. In 1985, one survey found that 56 percent of the people over the age of eighteen read a novel, short story, poem or play each year. Eighty six percent read some kind of books or magazine. However, very few

The author works from the frame that people do not become involved as and audience for the arts overnight. He presents data from his study which indicate that a person travels on a continuum from disinterest to participation. Arts managers need to understand this process in order to market their performances more effectively by determining in which ways to target which populations. The author proposes and tests a six stage model using data from the survey of public participation in the arts. The author determines that the model he proposes can help both arts managers and researchers. Data used

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Authors employ a data base of 2561 U.S. adults (the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts) to investigate two questions: (1) the degree to which electronic media successfully extend the reach of the arts to those who otherwise face obstacles (such as cost or geographic location) to live participation, and (2), the degree to which participation in the arts via the media serves as substitutes, in the economic sense, for individuals who face such obstacles. Media clearly extend the reach of the arts to vast numbers of individuals, including those who fact obstacles to live participation

Review by Carol B. Stapp, of the book Museum Visits and Activities for Family Life Enrichment (Binghamton, N.Y., Hawarth Press, 1989, 200 p.).

Review by John K. Urice of the book Socialization and Participation in the Arts [Washington, DC and Lawrenceville, NJ: National Endowment for the Arts and Princeton University Press, 1989, 54p.].

This annual survey of a representative group of nonprofit theatres was known as the TCG fiscal survey in 1974, 1975, 1976; the TCG survey in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980; and as Theatre facts since 1981. Theatre Facts also appears as a supplement to American Theatre magazine, usually in the April issue.

Based on a report prepared under contract n. C86-193 for the Research Division of the National Endowment for the Arts. See Who Reads Literature: Survey Data on the Reading of Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by U.S. Adults During the 1980s.

Case study of how one arts organization reshaped its structure or departed from a traditional arts model to better serve its artistic and community needs.

The article by this author is a typology of forms of public participation in the arts. By drawing on political theories that stress ideas of participatory democracy, the author examines relationships of political and arts participation, explores distinctions between active and passive participation in the arts, and analyzes examples in which interaction with the arts leads to increased or altered political participation in a democratic society.