Doctoral Dissertation Research: Understanding Value in the Cultural Economy

虽然经济价值通常是通过一件艺术收藏品的价格或音乐唱片的销量来衡量的，但这些物品的文化价值是多方面的，更难以衡量。本文试图通过对音乐和美术的研究来理解文化经济价值的决定因素。核心的实证问题是，行业参与者如何知道哪些物品在文化市场上比其他物品价值更高或更低。本研究将通过对策展人、人才买手、艺术家和音乐家的深度访谈，收集受访者自我报告的价值判断数据，关注文化经济中的知识建构。此外，对纽约市健全文化产业的民族志观察将与目前在芝加哥的研究形成比较案例，以了解参与者的价值理论与估值实践之间的关系。对这些耦合数据集的解释性分析将用于产生关于经济价值的原始经济理论，以及在此特定情况下的实证研究结果。总体目标是发展一个更完整的经济价值理论，除了对价格和数量的定量经济评价外，还考虑到文化评价。

Though economic value is often measured by the price of a collectible work of art or the number of music recordings sold, the cultural value of these objects is multifaceted and more difficult to measure. This dissertation seeks to understand the determinants of cultural-economic value through the study of music and fine art. The central empirical question asks how industry actors know which objects have more or less value than others in cultural markets. Through in-depth interviews with curators, talent buyers, artists, and musicians, this study will collect data on the self-reported value judgments of respondents, with attention to the construction of knowledge in the cultural economy. In addition, ethnographic observation of the sound culture industries in New York City will form a comparative case with current research in Chicago to understand the relationship between participants' theories of value and practices of valuation. Interpretive analysis of these coupled data sets will be used to generate original economic theory about economic value in addition to the empirical findings in this particular case. The overall goal is to develop a more complete theory of economic value that takes into account cultural evaluations in addition to quantitative economic evaluations of prices and quantity.