Culture Incorporated Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorships

As the advertisement suggests, sponsorships are now embedded in many facets of contemporary culture: cultural programs (from historic restorations to rock concerts), social sponsorships (of education, health, and environmental programs), or sports sponsorships. The borders between the social, cultur...

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Main Author: Mark W. Rectanus
Format: eBook
Language: Bahasa Inggris
Published: University of Minnesota Press 2002
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spelling oai:lib.umy.ac.id:520272021-06-16T13:06:14ZCulture Incorporated Museums, Artists, and Corporate SponsorshipsMark W. Rectanus Marketing & Advertising, Art patronage, Corporate sponsorship, Museums—Economic aspects, Arts— Economic aspectsAs the advertisement suggests, sponsorships are now embedded in many facets of contemporary culture: cultural programs (from historic restorations to rock concerts), social sponsorships (of education, health, and environmental programs), or sports sponsorships. The borders between the social, cultural, and political, which sponsoring ostensibly maintains, dissolve in the practice of corporate cultural politics. This is underscored by the shift from separate programming for cultural and social sponsorships to new programs that integrate cultural and social projects, both locally, in the communities where corporations maintain their operations, and globally, in their promotion of products and images. Corporate cultural politics attempt to legitimize corporate interests in globalized societies—in cultural, social, economic, and political spheres—but in doing so they also expose their stake in institutional and communal discourses and values. Not only has the corporation become accepted as a legitimate, institutionalized participant in the cultural marketplace, but corporate cultural politics also define and shape culture. Associating cultural sponsorship exclusively with “high culture” or patronage masks the corporation’s participation in constructing social relations and identities in a multidimensional culture of everyday life, a culture that cannot be adequately characterized as high or low. Culture Incorporated argues that an analysis of sponsorship, as a function of corporate cultural politics, is now more crucial than ever, precisely because sponsoring has become so ubiquitous. Sponsorships deflect attention away from the corporation’s own functions as a cultural producer, promoter, or mediator by projecting the image of an institutional entity standing outside the cultural marketplace.University of Minnesota Press2002eBookebook 221Bahasa Inggrishttp://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=52027
institution Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
collection Perpustakaan Yogyakarta
language Bahasa Inggris
topic Marketing & Advertising, Art patronage, Corporate sponsorship, Museums—Economic aspects, Arts— Economic aspects
spellingShingle Marketing & Advertising, Art patronage, Corporate sponsorship, Museums—Economic aspects, Arts— Economic aspects
Mark W. Rectanus
Culture Incorporated Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorships
description As the advertisement suggests, sponsorships are now embedded in many facets of contemporary culture: cultural programs (from historic restorations to rock concerts), social sponsorships (of education, health, and environmental programs), or sports sponsorships. The borders between the social, cultural, and political, which sponsoring ostensibly maintains, dissolve in the practice of corporate cultural politics. This is underscored by the shift from separate programming for cultural and social sponsorships to new programs that integrate cultural and social projects, both locally, in the communities where corporations maintain their operations, and globally, in their promotion of products and images. Corporate cultural politics attempt to legitimize corporate interests in globalized societies—in cultural, social, economic, and political spheres—but in doing so they also expose their stake in institutional and communal discourses and values. Not only has the corporation become accepted as a legitimate, institutionalized participant in the cultural marketplace, but corporate cultural politics also define and shape culture. Associating cultural sponsorship exclusively with “high culture” or patronage masks the corporation’s participation in constructing social relations and identities in a multidimensional culture of everyday life, a culture that cannot be adequately characterized as high or low. Culture Incorporated argues that an analysis of sponsorship, as a function of corporate cultural politics, is now more crucial than ever, precisely because sponsoring has become so ubiquitous. Sponsorships deflect attention away from the corporation’s own functions as a cultural producer, promoter, or mediator by projecting the image of an institutional entity standing outside the cultural marketplace.
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author Mark W. Rectanus
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title Culture Incorporated Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorships
title_short Culture Incorporated Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorships
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publisher University of Minnesota Press
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