Paper Assignment
In his essay "The Industrial Evolution of the Arts: Chicago's Auditorium Building (1889-) as Cultural Machine," Mark Clague argues that the interrelationship between financial, social, and artist components of an institution is key to understanding how music functions in the culture of the United States. Choose one of the music venues that you have encountered thus far (either during Immersion Week or on your own) and explain how it compares to the Auditorium Theatre with respect to its financial, social, and artistic functions. How is your venue similar? More importantly, how is it different? How does your venue's unique relationship between these three functions affect our understanding of it as a music scene? You should draw on (and properly cite!) at least of one of the readings by Clague, Finnegan, Vaillant, Ratliff, or Bennett and Peterson
Consider the following in constructing your arguments:
A scene encompasses the music, musicians, audience, material culture (the physical things associated with the music), venue and/or location, media, production, and shared values and aesthetics.
What is the balance between financial, social, and artistic components?
What role does each component play? How might the components reinforce or counteract each other?
Music institutions often play a larger role than individual participants in music scenes. In what ways do institutions' missions and priorities affect the balance between the financial, social, and artistic components in this scene?
Did the scene you encountered develop to serve a particular purpose? How has this purpose changed or developed over time?
Who participates in this scene? How might institutional priorities affect who has access to this scene?
What do conflicts within the scene-such as between participants' expectations and reality, between institutions, or between the individual components themselves-reveal about the balance between the components?
Why are some institutions better able to outlive their founding members than others? What musical and/or social values developed within the context of this scene? How have these values influenced the balance between financial, social, or artistic components? How have the components influenced the values held by individual and institutional participants?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.