Public Culture, Cultural Identity, Cultural Policy
Comparative Perspectives
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About This Book
This book places the study of public support for the arts and culture within the prism of public policy making. It is explicitly comparative in casting cultural policy within a broad sociopolitical and historical framework. Given the complexity of national communities, there has been an absence of comparative analyses that would explain the wide variability in modes of cultural policy as reflections of public cultures and cultural identity. The discussion is internationally focused and interdisciplinary. Mulcahy contextualizes a wide variety of cultural policies and their relation to politics and identity by asking a basic question: who gets their heritage valorized and by whom is this done? The fundamental assumption is that culture is at the heart of public policy as it defines national identity and personal value.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface: Why Read About Public Culture?
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Keywords
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Part I: Politics and Patronage
- Part II: Ideology and Identity
- Afterword: Configuring Cultural Policy
- Index