Critical Review of the Social Sciences Nº 67

Helena Santos

About audiences for culture: an illustrated reflection on a Portuguese case
This article analyzes the creation and production of an opera by the Educational Department of the Casa da Música from the perspective of work done with the active involvement of participants recruited in two public housing projects of the city of Oporto. The aim is to problematize this unprecedented experiment in the Portuguese context, as well as to relate it to some of the structural transformations of contemporary societies which put into question the analyses on audiences for culture.

Critical Review of the Social Sciences Nº 67
December, 2003