Cultural Policy

Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries

Dave O'Brien

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136661532
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than in cultural policy. This book uses insights from a range of disciplines to aid the reader in understanding contemporary cultural policy.

Drawing on a range of case studies, including analysis of the reality of work in the creative industries, urban regeneration and current government cultural policy in the UK, the book discusses the idea of value in the cultural sector, showing how value plays out in cultural organizations.

Uniquely, the book crosses disciplinary boundaries to present a thorough introduction to the subject. As a result, the book will be of interest to a range of scholars across arts management, public and nonprofit management, cultural studies, sociology and political science. It will also be essential reading for those working in the arts, culture and public policy.

INDEX

Entries refer to British/UK examples unless otherwise stated

• abundance of culture 64, 65 see also voracious cultural consumption
• access 41, 42, 44, 47
• accountability, BBC 133
• ACE. see Arts Council England
• Achieving Great Art for Everyone (Arts Council England) 126
• administration, public see government; see public administration;
• aesthetic/s: excellence 38–9, 43, 44, 82–3
  • hierarchical structures 123
  • and economics 6–11, 76, 79
  • realm 9, 11–12
  • service sector 80
  • value/s 4, 8, 38–9, 82–3, 139, 140
• alienation from labour 88
• ambivalences and ambiguities 48
  • BBC 134
  • creative economy 70, 86, 88
  • cultural economy 74
  • cultural industry 89
  • economic imaginary 111
  • and modernity 19, 21, 26, 28, 31, 115, 130, 133
• America: business school tradition 113, 121
  • cultural consumption 52, 53, 58, 60, 61
  • culture-led regeneration 95
  • public management theory anthropological perspectives 1193–4, 10, 64, 65
• anti-hierarchy see convergence culture
• art for art's sake 7–8, 9, 10, 98
• artists 7, 8, 11
  • graduates 84, 86, 89
  • low incomes 86–7, 89
• Arts Council England (ACE) 40, 41, 44–6,...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Modernity, government and the social life of methods: defining the context for cultural policy
• Whose culture? Participation and consumption in contemporary life
• ‘Beats working for a living’: life in the creative economy
• Changing places: the end of the golden age of culture-led regeneration
• The value of culture: theories of ‘public value’ and cultural organisations
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index