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Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano are now legendary, as much because of NEA support of their work as for the work itself. This is one example of what can happen when politics meets culture, and it provides an appropriate snapshot of the issues explored in this book. As in other policy areas, cultural policies develop within a particular political context, evolve as a consequence of government action or inattention, and affect a variety of publics and interests. In this volume, the contributors explore the inescapable politics accompanying public culture. Surveying the philosophical, economic, legal, and political underpinnings of cultural assistance, they articulate not only governments role in the support of the arts, but also basic questions for future cultural policy. Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano are now legendary, as much because of NEA support of their work as for the work itself. This is one example of what can happen when politics meets culture, and it provides an appropriate snapshot of the issues explored in this book. As in other policy areas, cultural policies develop within a particular political context, evolve as a consequence of government action or inattention, and affect a variety of publics and interests.Americas Commitment to Culture discusses government support of culture as a public policy area. The book focuses on the rationales underlying public support for the arts and examines the development and practice of government as an arts patron. The contributors explore the inescapable politics accompanying public culture. Surveying the philosophical, economic, legal, and political underpinnings of cultural assistance, they articulate not only governments role in the support of the arts, but also basic questions for future cultural policy.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors and Contributors -- 1 From Accord to Discord: Arts Policy During and After the Culture Wars -- The Controversy of 1989-1990 -- Continuing Skirmishes: 1991 and 1992 -- Myths and Misconceptions -- Changes and Challenges in the Arts Policy Context -- From Accord to Discord and Beyond -- 2 The Politics of Arts Policy: Subgovernment to Issue Network -- Policy and Policy Systems -- Prelude: Establishing the Arts on the Federal Agenda -- The Development of an Arts Subgovemment -- A Mature Arts Subgovernment in Action -- Counterpoint in the 1980's: Conflict and Erosion -- A Changed Policy Politics -- 3 Federal Arts Patronage in the New Deal -- New Deal Programs: The Support -- WPA Art Programs: The Attack -- Accomplishments of WPA Arts Projects -- Conclusion -- 4 To Change a Nation's Cultural Policy: The Kennedy Administration and the Arts in the United States, 1961-1963 -- Prologue -- The Beginning -- Groping for a Policy -- Defeat in the House of Representatives -- A Special Consultant to the President for the Arts -- The Job of the Special Consultant -- The Advisory Council on the Arts -- The Role of the Arts Constituency -- The Final Months -- Epilogue -- John F. Kennedy and the Arts - An Assessment -- 5 The Organization of Public Support for the Arts -- A Range of Federal Arts Activity -- The National Endowment for the Arts -- The Intergovernmental System of Support for the Arts -- Public Support for the Arts: The Record and Future Challenges -- 6 Leadership and the NEA: The Roles of the Chairperson and the National Council on the Arts -- The NEA Chairperson and the National Council: Authorizing Language -- Council Roles and Procedures -- The Roles and Records of the NEA Chairman -- The Stevens Years (1966-69).

<p>The distinguishing characteristic of cultural policy in countries characterized by a legacy of coloniality is the importance of the identity formation and the politics that are involved in formulating its definition. At root, coloniality is an experience involving dominating influence by a stronger power over a subject state. However, this is not just a matter of external governance or economic dependency, but of a cultural dominance that creates an asymmetrical relationship between the 'center' and the 'periphery,' between the ruling 'hegemon' and the marginalized 'other.' In these circumstances, what constitutes an "authentic" culture, and how this informs national identity, is a central political and social concern.</p>

Résumé : Avec une culture politique libérale qui se caractérise par un gouvernement limité, l'internationalisme et une société ouverte, le Canada se situe quelque part entre la France et les Etats-Unis dans son degré de protectionnisme culturel et d'intensité globale de la politique culturelle. Les Etats-Unis peuvent se permettre d'avoir une «politique culturelle des portes ouvertes» parce qu'ils ont peu à craindre de la concurrence étrangère. Pour le Canada, cependant, la culture de libre-échange fait surgir le spectre de l'incapacité de se protéger contre les forces de l'annexion culturelle américaine. Cet article enquête le débat sur l'impérialisme culturel américain et les préoccupations du Canada pour sa souveraineté culturelle avec une référence particulière aux accords de commerce international de la dernière décennie. Mots-clés : impérialisme, hégémonie, colonialité, relations asymétriques Abstract: With a liberal political culture that is characterized by limited government, internationalism and an open society, Canada stands somewhere between France and the United States in its degree of cultural protectionism and overall intensity of cultural politics. The United States, of course, is the great cultural exception with a regnant popular culture that is able to indemnify its production costs over a populous and prosperous society which is largely immune to cultural expressions that do not project an American sensibility. In effect, the United States can afford to have a "cultural open-door policy" because it has little to fear from foreign competition. For Canada, however, cultural free-trade raises the specter of standing unprotected against the forces of American cultural annexation. This discussion will survey the debate over U.S. cultural imperialism and Canadian concerns for its cultural sovereignty with particular reference to the international trade agreements of the past decade. Keywords: imperialism, hegemony, coloniality, asymmetrical relations