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Patronizing the Public
American Philanthropy's Transformation of Culture, Communication, and the Humanities
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2009
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Patronizing the Public: American Philanthropy's Transformation of Culture, Communication, and the Humanities is the first detailed and comprehensive examination of how American philanthropic foundations have shaped numerous fields, including dance, drama, education, film, film-music, folklore, journalism, local history, museums, radio, television, as well as the performing arts and the humanities in general. Drawing on an impressive range of archival and secondary sources, the chapters in the volume give particular attention to the period from the late 1920s to the late 1970s, a crucial time for the development of philanthropic practice. To this end, it examines how patterns and directions of funding have been based on complex negotiations involving philanthropic family members, elite networks, foundation trustees and officers, cultural workers, academics, state officials, corporate interests, and the general public. By addressing both the contours of philanthropic power as well as the processes through which that power has been enacted, it is hoped that this collection will reinforce and amplify the critical study of philanthropy's history.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2305-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3836-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
352
Product type
Edited Book
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Preface No access
Chapter 1. Civil Society and its Discontents: Bringing Culture, Communication, and the Humanities into the History of Philanthropy No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter 2. From the Rockefeller Center to the Lincoln Center: Musings on the "Rockefeller Half-Century" No access Pages 23 - 42
Chapter 3. Tranformation and Continuity in Rockefeller Child-Related Programs: Implications for the Emergence of Communications as a Field of Concern No access Pages 43 - 64
Chapter 4. Communication Practice and Theory in the "New Humanities" and "New General-Education" Programs of Rockefeller Philanthropy, 1933–1940 No access Pages 65 - 76
Chapter 5. The Rockefeller Foundation and Pan American Radio No access Pages 77 - 100
Chapter 6. Hollywood Bypass: MoMA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and New Circuits of Cinema No access Pages 101 - 122
Chapter 7. An “Art of Fugue” of Film Scoring: Hanns Eisler’s Rockefeller Foundation-Funded Film Music Project (1940–1942) No access Pages 123 - 152
Chapter 8. “Sugar-coating the Educational Pill”: Rockefeller Support for the Communicative Turn in Science Museums No access Pages 153 - 194
Chapter 9. The Political Economy of Rockefeller Support for the Humanities in Canada, 1941–1957 No access Pages 195 - 226
Chapter 10. Inadvertent Architects of Twentieth-Century Media Convergence: Private Foundations and the Reorientation of Foreign Journalists No access Pages 227 - 260
Chapter 11. Screen Technology, Mobilization, and Adult Education in the 1950s No access Pages 261 - 280
Chapter 12. The Television Activities of the Fund for the Republic No access Pages 281 - 308
Chapter 13. “The Weakest Point in Our Record”: Philanthropic Support of Dance and the Arts No access Pages 309 - 324
