1st Edition
Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance State, Markets, Musicians
By Michael Scott
Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance. Domestic artists' sales, airplay and concert attendance have all grown dramatically while new avenues for 'kiwi' pop exports emerged. Concurrent with these trends was a new collective sentiment that embraced and celebrated domestic musicians. In Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance, Michael Scott argues that this revival arose from... Read more
Contents: New Zealand’s pop renaissance; The ’after neo-liberal promotional state’; The development of popular music policy; The state and popular music markets; Musicians and the state; Popular music as social policy; Conclusion: governing through popular culture?; Appendix; Select bibliography; Index.
Biography
Michael Scott is a Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He has previously published in Popular Music, Journal of Sociology and Poetics.
’The historical marginalization of New Zealand’s local recording industry by the international record companies has usually been framed in terms of the traditional binary between a more interventionist government role in the market place versus the operation of the free market. Scott moves beyond this, providing a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of policies supporting the production and dissemination of domestic popular music, introduced during the Fifth Labour Government (1999-2008) and maintained since. In situating the New Zealand case in terms of a rejection of neo-liberalism and the shift to an enabling state, this study will be of wider interest, making an original and valuable contribution to our understanding of popular music policy.’ Roy Shuker, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand ’Scott’s critical sociological approach provides a range of state-centric and society-centric interpretations that enable a new reading of these state-driven music economy interventions’. www.musictrust.com.au
