Every dollar invested in local live performance is multiplied in benefits to local communities. But state funding has to be strategic and targeted.
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Because the US government has rarely offered full-throated support for the arts, there’s a long tradition of innovation, adaptation and collective action among American artists.
The president has followed in the footsteps of Louis XIV of France and the czars of Russia, who operated national theaters as extensions of monarchical power.
There has been a sea change in arts funding with the idea of intrinsic worth replaced by economic potential.
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
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PhD Candidate in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, University of the Arts London
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Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate professor, Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor, The Design School, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Theatre, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in Musical Theatre, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Music, University of Leeds
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Professor of Children's Literature & Childhood Culture, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Senior Research Advisor, Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Associate Professor, School of Music and Screen Arts, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University