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Arts Administration Training in the United States

<P>Arts Administration is a recent development whose first academic programs in the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; U.S. and Great Britain were started as late as the late 1960s. Although it is relatively new as a discipline, arts administration training is a field in which Western countries have more than twenty years of experience. In Japan, the terms Arts Management has recently become a well-known word among those who discuss improvement of the environment for artistic and cultural activities. As the first 4-year undergraduate program for Arts Managers in Japan was started in 1994 at the Showa College of Music, no formal academic programs at the graduate level are yet established. It seems that Japanese can learn a lot from Western experiences.</P>
<P>Although arts administrators in different countries are confronted with different problems depending on their social and cultural contexts, some commonalities exist. The author studied the early stages of Arts Administration programs in Great Britain while she was studying in the Department of Arts Policy and Management at the City University in London in 1991-92. In this current research on Arts Administration training in the U. S. she further identified relevant characteristics and issues. The author hopes this research may prove helpful for Arts Administration educators and other related professionals both in Japan and other countries. <BR>(p. 1)</P>
<P>CONTENTS<BR>Preface. <BR>Methodology of the survey. <BR>Survey result: <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Part 1. Graduate Arts Administration training programs. <BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Part 2. Workshops, seminars and institutes in Arts Administration. <BR>Summary. <BR>Towards educating/training for Arts Administrators in Japan.<BR>Appendix A. Questionnaire 1. <BR>Appendix B. Questionnaire 2. <BR>Appendix C. List of sample group 1 and 2. <BR>References.</P>

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Yoneya, Naoko
46 p.
December, 1994
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Research Abstract
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Professional Development
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