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DEMOCRATISATION OF CULTURE

The concept ‘democratisation of culture’ came about as part of substantive political changes aimed at achieving a more evolved democracy after WWII. It was formulated in 1959 and put into practice by the French Ministry of Culture, headed at the time by the famous writer André Malraux. The idea behind the concept was that the insufficient development of cultural needs and habits in a wider population was caused by their being denied the opportunity to encounter works of art and high culture in general. Hence, the aim was to provide equal opportunities for all citizens to participate in publicly organized and financed cultural activities. This was expected to eventually lead to the development of their cultural needs and habits.

Tomka – Spaces for culture at urban peripheries: The case of culture stations and Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2022

Tomka, G. (2023). Spaces for culture at urban peripheries: The case of culture stations and Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2022

European inventory of
societal values of culture

DEMOCRATISATION OF CULTURE

Evrard - Democratizing Culture or Cultural Democracy?

Brunel - Democratization of Culture

Amor Muñoz and Mauricio Delfín - Democratizing culture

Steven Hadley - Audience Development & Democratic Cultural Policy

Jim McGuigan - From Cultural Populism to Cool Capitalism

Psychogiopoulou - Cultural Governance and the European Union

Cvetičanin, Petrić & Koludrović - Towards a social turn in cultural policy: A policymaker’s guidebook

Tomka – Spaces for culture at urban peripheries: The case of culture stations and Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2022