Cultural management -planification, bureaucracy and improvisation: the particular case of Brasil

Abstract

Brazil is not only the country of diversity, hybridity and syncretism. The mixture (to a leve! of paradox) is present in the domain of cultural management. In the country which is the paradise of formulations and verbalizations, laws are many times considered dead-born, but it was a law that arrived during the democratic transition that changed the relation of the state with cultural agents in Brazil. Brazilian cultural production is anchored in the Ley de Incentivo a la Cultura and similar ones. Nevertheless, the characteristic inequality of Brazilian society also in-fluences cultural management. With the degree of professionalization that the law implies, it does not work far every sector of society, but for the most organized and those with better means. Marginal society has, however, its own mechanism of management, almost always informal ones.