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Popular Music and Cultural Policy book cover

1st Edition

Popular Music and Cultural Policy

Edited By Shane Homan, Martin Cloonan, Jen Cattermole Copyright 2015
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge
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Popular music is increasingly visible in government strategies and policies. While much has been written about the expanding flow of music products and music creativity in emphasising the global nature of popular music, little attention has been paid to the flow of ideas about policy formation and debates between regions and nations. This book examines specific regional and national histories,... Read more

1. Introduction: popular music and policy Shane Homan, Martin Cloonan and Jen Cattermole

2. Music, markets and manifestos John Street

3. Irrational amusements, theatre law, and moral reformers in nineteenth-century America: implications for later popular music study Gillian Margaret Rodger

4. Steering a review: some reflections on a gig Martin Cloonan

5. Independent creative subcultures and why they matter Kate Shaw

6. ‘Lend me your ears’: social policy and the hearing body Bruce Johnson

7. Why get involved? Finding reasons for municipal interventions in the Canadian music industry Richard Sutherland

8. From Coombs to Crean: popular music and cultural policy in Australia Shane Homan

Biography

Shane Homan is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Martin Cloonan is Professor of Popular Music and Politics at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Jen Cattermole is a Lecturer in the Department of Music at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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