By Judith R. Blau
This ebook systematically examines triumphing cultural styles in modern American society. utilizing details on numerous millions of cultural companies, together with opera and chamber track businesses in addition to cinemas and reside rock concert events, Professor Blau examines the geography of tradition, the altering calls for for tradition, the interdependencies between cultural companies of alternative types, the character of work markets for artists, and the results of arts subsidies on nonprofit cultural institutions over a 10 yr interval.
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It can be concluded that so long as musical styles have a distinctive identity and a sense of direction, they do make an historical impact on given age groups. It is, nevertheless, a short-lived historical impact. In contrast, bland and nondescript musical styles have no historical or demographic impact whatsoever. And with the single exception of ethnic music, no matter how important a genre of music is at a given point in time for a particular cohort, it does not continue to appeal to its members for very long.
15 Peter V. Marsden, John Shelton Reed, Michael P. Kennedy, and Kandi M. Stinson, "American Regional Differences in Leisure Time Activities," Social Forces 60 (1982), 1023-1049. 16 The south's lower standing on indicators of residents' interests in the arts persisted through 1985, but one sub-region of the south, namely the east south central, is primarily responsible for the south's low standing. See Judith R. Blau and Gail Quets, The Geography of Arts Participation (Washington DC: National Endowment for the Arts, 1987).
There are also major centers for the popular arts that have little elite art. A notable example is Charlotte, North Carolina, that ranks in the top 10 per cent on radio, dance halls, and commercial orchestras, but ranks low on nearly all the elite art indicators. Thus, the concern of the mass culture theorists that the "bad" (that is, commercial popular culture) would drive out the "good" (that is, traditional elite culture) appears to be unfounded. There is considerable variation among urban places with respect to their cultural strengths and weaknesses and that variation is not a function of any compatibility or of any antagonism between elite and popular culture.