Making meaning, making money: directions for the arts and cultural industries in The Creative Age / edited by Lisa Andersen and Kate Oakley

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Publication details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008Description: xv, 272 pISBN:

9781443800655

Abstract: The arts have rarely been at the heart of so many policy discussions in so many places at once. All over the world politicians and artists have been making a strong case for the social and commercial value of ‘culture.' It is found in debates about education, industrial policy, criminal justice and community wellbeing. As ‘creative industries,’ it is part of international competitiveness and the future of our cities and towns, from Shanghai to Sheffield to Shepparton. Many practitioners and advocates have welcomed culture’s new prominence in policy discourse and the new markets it offers for cultural production. Others, however, see a danger that instrumental justifications for cultural funding risk overlooking the intrinsic qualities of culture, reducing it to an ‘input’ and blunting any radical edges. This book asks: are we are at ‘a new moment’ for cultural policy? Leading international thinkers from countries including Australia, Britain and the United States provide a timely overview of these issues, debating and discussing the directions that cultural policy should take in the future. (Font: Editor)

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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The cultural policy moment: 1. A new "Moment" for cultural policy? / David Throsby ; 2. Any answer as long as it's right: evidence-based cultural laces: Which policy directions? / Chris Gibson ; 3. Creative arts, people and places: which policy direction? / Chris Gibson ; 4. Monolithic cultural policy / Christopher Madden -- Part II: Access, education and innovation ; 5. Essential ideas and images about the power of the arts making as a social practice / Pamille Berg ; 6. Building innovation: the impact of education in and through the arts / Anne Bamford. 7. Regional Deelopment ; 8. Economic development through the arts in rural Montana / John Barsness ; 9. Creative regions in the Digital Era: screen and creative industries in the Northern Rivers Region of NSW / Cathy Henkel ; 10. Creative industries and cultural developments in regional Europe: A case study from Scotland's Highlands & Islands / Jeremy Sim -- Part IV: Community wellbeing: 11. Community life and cultural vitality in a changing world: contribution of the arts / Eva Cox ; 12. Measuring the social contribution of the arts ; 13. Citizenvalues and the arts: New language for Australian cultural policy / Deborah Mills ; 14. Knowledge, power and cultural policy: social understanding through community cultural development / Paul Brown -- Contributors -- Index

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