Introduction
Part I: Who Were the Experts?
Chapter 1: Defining Excellence, Quality, and Style: Consultants as
Contributory Experts
Chapter 2: Gatekeeping from Within: Grantmaking Officers as
Interactional Experts
Chapter 3: Pluralism and Public-Private Relationships in the Field
of Cultural Production
Part II: Experts in Action
Chapter 4: The Rockefeller Foundation, the University New Music
Center, and
Michael Sy Uy,Allston Burr Resident Dean, Harvard College
Michael Sy Uy is the Allston Burr Resident Dean of Dunster House,
Assistant Dean of Harvard College, and a Lecturer in the Harvard
University Department of Music. His main areas of scholarly
research focus on philanthropy, arts education, cultural policy,
and connoisseurship. In 2018, he was awarded the Distinguished
Faculty Award by the Harvard Foundation.
"Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and
professionals." -- A. J. Adam, CHOICE
"After all my years and experiences leading institutions, Ask the
Experts still gives me new insights in the art of grantmaking. As
Uy notes, how we choose experts plays an incredibly important role
in what we fund. Experts should broaden and even challenge our
perspectives and starting assumptions rather than only reinforce
them." -- Jonathan Fanton, former President of the MacArthur
Foundation, former President of the American Academy of Arts
and
Sciences
"Ask the Experts makes painfully vivid the practices of power and
exclusion behind grantmaking decisions by white men invested in the
Western art music tradition. Uy's meticulously researched and
lively account illuminates the biased processes that determined
which institutions would call the shots and what music should be
validated. A book for our times." -- Ellie M. Hisama, Professor of
Music, Columbia University
"Uy's disarming narrative propels the reader through a series of
interwoven stories about cultural and social capital during the
first decades of the Cold War and the illusion of democratic
representation in arts grantmaking. With helpful charts, tables,
and spotlights on influential experts, this book provides a useful
guide with the ease of a textbook." -- Naomi André, Professor in
the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Department
of
Women's Studies, University of Michigan
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