The explosive popularity of museums has made museum studies one of the most productive and exciting intellectual and pedagogical sites for historians and art historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and critical theorists. Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture, philosophy, and their adoring or combative publics. An indispensable text for teaching museum studies in today's classroom, Museum Studies brings together for the first time a wide array of texts that mix contemporary analysis with classic, historical documentation. Offering encyclopedic coverage of the issues critical to the rise and role of the museum - history and development: relation to society: the ethics of classification, exhibition, and exclusion: the representation of cultures: property and ownership: the poetics of display: material culture and historical documentation: tradition, innovation, and self-reflexivity in museum practice - this is the most comprehensive and ambitious volume available on museum studies. The Anthology opens with an introductory essay that provides vital background and situates museum studies in a truly interdisciplinary context. Each section includes an opening essay that guides the reader through the selections while the volume's bibliography provides a list of resources devoted to museum studies.

Write This WayFor those who believe publishing is a game, Peanut Butter and Jelly Press is introducing a series of rule books. The first is Fern Reiss's (Terrorism and Kids) marketing how-to manual, The Publishing Game: Bestseller in 30 Days, with strategies designed to make the day job superfluous: create a national holiday that relates to your book; organize a speaking tour; sell to book clubs and magazines; set up a Web site for each of your titles. If only it were that easy!

This book is an innovative guide to understanding and implementing the possibilities for self-promotion and marketing available to fine artists. With an emphasis on which strategies work and which don't, the author explains ingenious and not commonly thought of ways fine artists can become visible and establish a reputation, even on a small budget. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


Julius Vitali is an internationally exhibited artist whose work is in numerous public and private collections, including those of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and Polaroid Corporation. His innovative artwork has been the subject of articles and features in over three hundred newspapers and magazines worldwide, and he has received grants from the NEA, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Adolph and Esther Gottleib Foundation, Polaroid, and Kodak. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Museum Administration is the handbook for students, new professionals, and anyone who needs to know what goes into running a museum. The authors cover everything from basic organization to human resource management, with case studies and exercises to help reinforce the text. Includes an extensive bibliography and appendices. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Paperback: 416 pages

Publisher: AltaMira Press (September 2003)

The published report from the Second American Congress of Theater held in Cambridge, Mass. in June 2000. This convening of 250 delegates representing both the commercial and not-for-profit theaters, as well as individual artists, was organized in partnership between Theatre Communications Group and The League of American Theatre and Producers. Topics include commercial and non-profit relationships, the artist's role, advocacy, marketing and the press.

This is a publication of the Music Managers' Forum which is an association largely for the pop industry. There is nevertheless a great deal of very useful information about recording contracts, collecting societies, music publishing etc.


Paperback: 352 pages


Publisher: Sanctuary Press (October 3, 2003)

ISBN: 1844920259

A marketing book for travel professionals, Leisure Travel focuses primarily on the psychology of travelwhy people travel and why they don't, and how to reach and motivate them more effectively. This book emphasizes that to get a greater market share, the travel professional must understand the motivations, thoughts, and lifestyles of their important market segments; thereby ensuring that advertising and promotional dollars for their programs hit their intended targets. A sweeping perspective of the leisure travel industry, this book explains, through examples and real case scenarios, how to provide the best travel products targeted to the right audience, and with the best marketing messages. For managers and executives of marketing and directors of planning at travel supplier companies (airlines, hotel chains, individual hotels, rental car companies, and cruise lines); owners and managers of travel agencies and travel agency conglomerates; and owners, managers, and executives at tour companies and travel packages.

Entertainment Law was written with the reader in mind. Complex legal principles are presented in language that is easily understood and are portrayed using a host of interesting case examples. The edited judicial decisions, showing court interpretation, make this book unlike any other currently on the market.


About the Author


Jeffrey A. Helewitz, Esquire, is a legal and financial consultant, an adjunct professor of law at C.U.N.Y. School of Law, an adjunct professor of paralegal studies at Marymount Manhattan College, New York Career Institute and a lecturer in continuing legal education. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance degree from New York University and a Master of Laws (LL.M.), Business and Trade degree from Georgetown University. Mr. Helewitz earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) at Georgetown University Law Center and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rochester.

Paperback: 448 pages

Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning; 1 edition (July 21, 2003)

Organization Behaviour for Leisure Services discusses and questions a number of key elements, including:



* The individual and the organization

* Groups in the organization

* Organizational structures and behaviour

* Management within the organization

* Commercial hospitality, leisure and tourism in a service context



Taking the view that leisure services involve an array of industry sectors - they are related, for instance, to work-time spent eating, drinking and staying away from home, as well as the more obvious recreational pursuits - the text uses examples and case studies from a wide range of international businesses such as hotels, restaurants, museums, shopping malls and sports stadia. Specific examples used are from Marriotts, McDonald's, Trafford Centre and many more.



With a user-friendly structure and style, the text is an ideal introduction to the fundamental issues invovled - perfect for students and managers alike.



* Provides conceptual basis for the study of organizational behaviour in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industry.

* Includes special focus on the leisure industry, with material on 'emotional labour', 'empowerment' and 'managing diversity'.

* Contains a wide range of international case examples.


Butterworth-Heinemann, July 2003, Paperback, 272 pages

Arts Under Pressure analyzes the relevant forces behind decision-making in cultural matters worldwide, specifically in the field of the arts, under the influence of economic globalization. The book deals with all the arts, in all parts of the world, focusing on the cycle of creation, production, distribution, promotion, reception, and influence. It asks the key questions: who has the power to decide what reaches audiences in what quantities, with what contents, and surrounded by what kinds of ambiences? The author claims that mass culture does not exist; what exists are artistic creations that are produced, distributed and promoted on a mass scale.

Joost Smiers is Director of The Centre for Research, Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands, and Visiting Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures, University of California (Los Angeles).

The growth of collaboration between museums and source communities - the people from whom collections originate - is one of the most important developments in modern museum practice.
This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved.
Focusing on museums in North America, the Pacific and the United Kingdom, the book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most clearly:
*The museum as field site or 'contact zone' - a place which source community members enter for purposes of consultation and collaboration
*Visual repatriation - the use of photography to return images of ancestors, historical moments and material heritage to source communities
*Exhibition case studies - these are discussed to reveal the implications of cross-cultural and collaborative research for museums, and how such projects have challenged established attitudes and practices


As the first overview of its kind, this collection will be essential reading for museum staff working with source communities, for community members involved with museum programmes, and for students and academics in museum studies and social anthropology.

Serves as both an introduction and practical guide to the principles and practices of arts marketing. Numerous case studies illustrate the text, with examples from community, visual, and amateur arts. Lacks a bibliography.

Integrates the principles of marketing theory with the realities of working in an arts organization. Includes case studies and examples from community, visual and amateur arts Creative Arts Marketing is a practical introduction to the wide range of marketing principles and practices used by those marketing the performing and visual arts.


Paperback 384 pages (June 25, 2003)
2nd edition

Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann

Ever wonder how major league lobbies (e.g., conservationists, gun owners, seniors, anti-tax groups, and health care industry) gain legislator's attention? How grassroots groups get started? Would you like to learn how to increase credibility and clout with your communities, boards, local officials, and state legislators? If so, look no further, for here is the first comprehensive lobbying handbook for advocates of public and school libraries and information services.


Among the topics covered: an overview of public interest and library lobbying from 1808 to the present day; the lobbying activities of major organizations and pioneering advocates; detailed advice on planning, organizing, and building legislative agendas; game plans for waging and winning political support; how to organize a library legislation day, posting and publicizing voting records; campaign war chest contributions; the preparation and delivery of testimony; and the proper handling of communications with newspapers and the electronic media. Also included are field reports from successful school and public library activists, and a listing of thirty critical issues facing library and information services in the 21st century.


An essential guide for all citizen activists and professional librarians who want to defend, protect, and improve library and information services during economic downturns as well as during "boom" times.



Richard S. Halsey was a library school dean from 1980 until 1993, and served as secretary of New York State Common Cause, executive director of the Citizens' Library Council of New York State, and chair of the Committee for the New York State Library.

This guide brings together the stories, beliefs and experiences of a few seasoned theatre managers. Through them, a portrait and a concept emerge depicting what they have unknowingly practiced throughout their careers. Designed to be a stepping stone for new theatre managers, this book covers a wide variety of topics including budgeting theatre costs, gross potentials and ticket prices, show contracts, settlements and emergency and security procedures. A sample budget, building forms, and show and performance forms are also included. While most of the experiences in this book relate to commercial theatre, many of the ideas put forward can be applied to not-for-profit theatre and facility management.



Paperback, 281 pages, Scarecrow Press (September, 2003),

ISBN: 0810846837

An authoritative reference to the legal, economic and financial aspects of the ultra-competitive music industry, this 9th edition features coverage on the legal implications of MP3, international cooperation in anti-bootlegging initiatives, the death and rebirth of Napster, secure copyright digital initiatives problems and achievements and more. It also includes an updated directory of websites for music business information and research sources.

The latest, most comprehensive financial and operational data from Americas museums. Take a look at the numbers on a wide range of institutional activities, from attendance, operating and non-operating income and expenses, earned income sources, and costs of collections care to the net profit per square foot of museum stores and food services, and the percent of operating expenses devoted to administration and fund raising. Compare your museums financial performance to the field-wide averages and gain insight into areas of operation that may need improvement. AAMs field-wide survey of 800 museums of all types also features a section on demographicsthe number, types, and distribution of museums in the United Statesand a section on financial trends from fiscal years 2000 to 2002. Essential reading for directors, boards of trustees, financial and development officers, and others involved in museum management and finance.
Published in 2003, 150 pages

In the 1990s arts policy research was a fledgling enterprise. Many issues were uninvestigated, alternative research methods were underutilized, and researchers struggled amidst limited support systems. Arts policymakers treated research either with relative indifference or as a source of pre-determined political ammunition to reinforce claims for increased public support. But the culture wars of the early 1990s awoke policymakers and foundation officials to the need for a broader base of inquiry that anticipates trends and scenarios which shape systems of creation, dissemination, and support in the arts. Pankratz, Morris, and their contributors reflect this forward-looking spirit. They document how policy forums, foundation support, and research centers have built an arts policy community in the United States. They also show how renewed stress on the public purposes of the arts, a broadened definition of the arts sector, and technological, demographic, cultural, and social trends have presented the research community with new roles for informing policymakers. The book's provocative chapters, prepared by distinguished leaders in arts research and policy, bring fresh perspectives on how policy-sensitive knowledge can prepare artists, administrators, and policymakers to wisely meet the inevitable challenges of the arts in a new millenium. Important reading for arts administration educators and those involved with arts administration/public arts policy, arts reseachers and scholars in cultural policy, grantmakers in the arts, directors of public arts agencies at all levels, and directors of arts service organizations.



VALERIE B. MORRIS is Dean of the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston. DAVID B. PANKRATZ is an arts research consultant based in Southern California.


# Hardcover: 272 pages

# Publisher: Praeger Publishers (April 30, 2003)

Artful Making offers the first proven, research-based framework for engineering ingenuity and innovation. This book is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Harvard Business School professor Robert Austin and leading theatre director and playwright Lee Devin. Together, they demonstrate striking structural similarities between theatre artistry and production and today's business projects--and show how collaborative artists have mastered the art of delivering innovation "on cue," on immovable deadlines and budgets. These methods are neither mysterious nor flaky: they are rigorous, precise, and--with this book's help--absolutely learnable and reproducible. They rely on cheap and rapid iteration rather than on intensive up-front planning, and with the help of today's enabling technologies, they can be applied in virtually any environment with knowledge-based outputs. Moreover, they provide an overarching framework for leveraging the full benefits of today's leading techniques for promoting flexibility and innovation, from agile development to real options.


Paperback: 240 pages

Publisher: FT Press (May 8, 2003)

A Handbook of Cultural Economics includes over 60 eminently readable and concise articles by 50 expert contributors. This unique and fascinating Handbook covers a wide area of cultural economics and its closely related subjects. While being accessible to any reader with a basic knowledge of economics, it presents a comprehensive study at the fore-front of the field.


Of the many subjects discussed, chapters include:

Art (including auctions, markets, prices, anthropology), artists labour markets, arts management and corporate sponsorship, globalization, the internet, media economics, museums, non-profit organisations, opera, performance indicators, performing arts, publishing, regulation, tax expenditures, value of culture and welfare economics.


Hardcover: 512 pages

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (June 2003)

This essential handbook is aimed at students, graduates and all aspirants to stage managership, whether amateur or professional, whether the production is on a large or small scale. The clearest and most practical comprehensive work on the subject that I have seen.The Stage

Paperback: 160 pages

Publisher: Nick Hern Books; 2Rev Ed edition (January 2004)