Dave O'Brien

Cultural Policy

Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries

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Produktbeschreibung

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, this book discusses the idea of value in the cultural sector, showing how value plays out in cultural organizations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415817592
• ISBN-10: 0415817595
• Artikelnr.: 38027452

Autorenporträt

Dave O'Brien is Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at City University, UK. He specializes in cultural value and urban cultural policy issues and has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Liverpool, UK. His work on cultural value includes a recent secondment and report to the UK's Department for Culture Media and Sport, along with several conference papers and forthcoming research articles

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Modernity, Government and the Social Life of Methods:
Defining the Context for Cultural Policy 3. Whose Culture?: Participation
and Consumption in Contemporary Life 4. 'Beats Working for a Living': Life
in the Creative Economy 5. Changing Places: The End of the Golden Age of
Culture-Led Regeneration 6. The Value of Culture: Theories of 'Public
Value' and Cultural Organizations 7. Conclusion