Overview
- Explicates the extent to which western states have shifted from cultural policies embedded in welfare state ideology to a market-based and managerialist model of cultural policy
- Considers the strengthening of international and transnational art markets and art worlds, and analyzes their patterns of action and internal power relations
- Analyses the relationship between contemporary capitalist economy and art worlds
Part of the book series: Sociology of the Arts (SOA)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
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Contemporary National Cultural Policies and Art Worlds in North America and Europe
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International and Transnational Art Worlds and Their Ways of Operation
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Conclusion
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About this book
Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors explore how in these two decades, the neoliberal or market-based model of capitalism started to spread from the economic realm to other areas of society. As a result, many aspects of contemporary Western societies increasingly function in the same way as the private enterprise sector under traditional market capitalism.
The first volume of this two-volume collection considers a broad range of national cultural policies from European and North American countries, and examines the strengthening of international and transnational art worlds in music, visual arts, film, and television. The chapters cover cultural policy and political culture in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Nordic countries,the Balkans, and Slovenia, and address the extent to which Western nations have shifted from welfare-state to market-based ideologies. Tensions between centres and peripheries in global art worlds are considered, as well as complex interactions between nations and international and transnational art worlds, and regional variations in the audiovisual market.
Both volumes provide students and scholars across a range of disciplines with an incisive, comparative overview of the politics of art and culture and national, international and transnational art worlds in contemporary capitalism.Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Victoria D. Alexander is Senior Lecturer, Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Samuli Hägg is Lecturer, Finnish and Literature, University of Eastern Finland.
Simo Häyrynen is Adjunct Professor of Cultural Policy, University of Eastern Finland.
Erkki Sevänen is Professor of Literature, University of Eastern Finland and Adjunct Professor of Aesthetics, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Art and the Challenge of Markets Volume 1
Book Subtitle: National Cultural Politics and the Challenges of Marketization and Globalization
Editors: Victoria D. Alexander, Samuli Hägg, Simo Häyrynen, Erkki Sevänen
Series Title: Sociology of the Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64586-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64585-8Published: 30 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87827-0Published: 07 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64586-5Published: 16 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2569-1414
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1406
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 348
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Studies, Cultural Management, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Arts