The Role and the Accountability of the Public Performing Arts Facilities in Japan - A Comparison between the Activities of the Public Performing Arts Facilities in Japan and those of American Universities.

日本公共表演艺术设施的作用和责任——日本和美国大学公共表演艺术设施活动的比较。

基本信息

批准号：
12490029
负责人：
NAKAYA Kazuyoshi
金额：
$ 8.58万
依托单位：
Keio University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
财政年份：
2000
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2000 至 2003
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Today in Japan, there are more than 2,000 public facilities for numerous types of performing arts performances. All have been built by different levels of Japanese governments and have been either operated directly by or been receiving maintenance funds exclusively from these governments. Many of the performing arts facilities were built within the last two decades of the twentieth century, during which Japan saw tremendous-but-rather-brief economical growth. These recently built facilities are highly specialized ; by far, a concert hall solely intended for performances of classical music played by highly skilled musicians has been the most popular. The cost of building as well as maintaining these meticulously designed facilities has been high. The price tags for some of the concert halls have been more than 5 billion Japanese yen. In addition, these facilities spend a few hundred million Japanese yen a year to just maintain the buildings. All of these have been paid by public funds, … More the tax payer's money.After experiencing a long lasting economical recession, which followed the "bubble" period in the 1980s, the accountability of the public funds distributed to the public performing arts facilities has become a public interest. As a result, the performing arts facilities began asking questions to themselves to verify the meaning of the spending of the public funds. During the process, the facilities also began re-assessing the role they play in the community they belong to.We have conducted interviews to a number of Japanese performing arts facilities as well as some American universities, which often offer to the public many types of performing arts performances as public service, to evaluate the recent activities of the Japanese facilities. We found that there is no simple way of calculating the accountability of the public funds the Japanese performing arts facilities draw. Each facility has to find its own way of justifying the spending of the public funds. The first step they need to take is most definitively to review their mission and re-define the purposes of their activities. Less

如今，日本有 2000 多个用于各种表演艺术表演的公共设施，这些设施都是由日本各级政府建造的，并且由这些政府直接运营或专门接受维护资金。艺术设施是在二十世纪最后二十年建成的，在此期间日本经历了巨大但相当短暂的经济增长，这些最近建成的设施是高度专业化的；到目前为止，音乐厅仅用于演奏古典音乐。由技艺高超的音乐家创作的建造和维护这些精心设计的设施的成本很高，一些音乐厅的价格已超过 50 亿日元，此外，这些设施每年花费数亿日元。所有这些都是用公共资金支付的，纳税人的钱。在经历了20世纪80年代“泡沫”时期之后的长期经济衰退之后，公共资金的责任分配了。于是，演艺设施开始自问，以验证公共资金支出的意义。在此过程中，演艺设施也开始重新评估其角色。我们对一些日本的表演艺术机构以及一些经常向公众提供多种类型的表演艺术表演作为公共服务的美国大学进行了采访，以评估他们最近的活动。我们发现，没有简单的方法来计算日本设施的责任。日本表演艺术设施提取的公共资金必须找到自己的方式来证明公共资金支出的合理性，他们需要采取的第一步是明确地审查其使命并重新定义其活动的目的。。较少的