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42 J. Arts Mgmt. L. & Soc'y 1 (2012)

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THE JOURNAL OF ARTS MANAGEMENT, LAW, AND SOCIETY, 42:1 3,2012     t   n  idI
Copyright C Taylor & Francis Group, LLC                                   Roulleue
ISSN: 1063-2921 print / 1930-7799 online                                  Taylor & Francis Group
DOI: 10.1080/10632921.2012.660804




                               INTRODUCTION





                     Executive Editor's Introduction


                                    Ann M. Galligan
                      Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts



In this issue of The Journal ofArts Management, Law, & Society, we explore three main themes-
arts management and its evolution, stolen art and its restitution, and the policies surrounding cul-
tural legitimacy-and, along the way, examine the role of the U.S. government in funding art and
culture, and then, with respect to cultural legitimacy, look at examples of the challenges of creat-
ing an authentic national cultural voice in the case of two postcommunist countries, Yugoslavia
and Latvia. These topics are explored through a variety of legal, historical, and sociological lenses
and speak to the interdisciplinary nature of this journal. We also have broadened our scope in this
issue to include a review of a documentary film as well as reviews of important publications in
the field. In addition, JAMLS is pleased to announce a call for papers from graduate students for
our second graduate issue dedicated to Judith Huggins Balfe, one of the most supportive graduate
student mentors and a founder of this publication.
   In the first article, entitled Self-Governed Interest Associations: Forgotten Past or Future
for Serbian Culture, Smiljka Isakovi6, a harpsichordist, pianist, and professor at Megatrend
University in Belgrade on the Faculty of Culture and Media, describes how Yugoslav culture
from 1970-1990 was signed by the tight net of Self-Governed Interest Associations. Understood
as one of Yugoslavia's transient eras, when the political control over cultural life was given
to the boards of professionals and experts, SIZ time, as it was termed, provided an ideal base
for future development of arts management. This article explores possibilities of applying the
positive experience of the SIZ model, modified by contemporary NGOs, as the possible solution
for arts management problems in Serbia and the region at that time.
   The second article, Public Culture in America: A Review of Cultural Policy Debates, by
Dustin Kidd of the Department of Sociology at Temple University, examines debates about public
culture from the late 1980s to the present and identifies thirteen arguments that have been used
to justify an investment in public culture: public interest, national security, merit, moral worth,
the good life, economic development, politics, education, democracy, American identity, shared


   Address correspondence to Ann M. Galligan, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
E-mail: a.galligan@neu.edu

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