Use or Ornament? The Social Impact of Participation in the Arts (Featuring The Lawnmowers Pp56-58 & 74)
ISBN 1-873667-57-4
Comedia Publishers, Gloucester
1997-2000 – Francois Matarasso
http://www.culturenet.cz/res/data/004/000571.pdf
This report offers an account of the evidence we have found of social impacts arising from participation in the arts and, of some of the methods used in the research. It is the first large-scale attempt, in the UK at least, to come to grips with these issues and our intention has not been to give definitive answers but….. to ask the questions more clearly. If others, and especially those who work in the field, are encouraged to take forward this general study into more specific areas, it will have succeeded in its purpose.
positive financial contribution to the public purse.