Popular Music Industries and the State: Policy Notes (Routledge Studies in Popular Music)

Synopsis

This volume studies the relationships between government and the popular music industries, comparing three Anglophone nations: Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. At a time when issues of globalization and locality are seldom out of the news, musicians, fans, governments, and industries are forced to reconsider older certainties about popular music activity and their roles in production and consumption circuits. The decline of multinational recording companies, and the accompanying rise of promotion firms such as Live Nation, exemplifies global shifts in infrastructure, profits and power. Popular music provides a focus for many of these topics—and popular music policy a lens through which to view them. The book has four central themes: the (changing) role of states and industries in popular music activity; assessment of the central challenges facing smaller nations competing within larger, global music-media markets; comparative analysis of music policies and debates between nations (and also between organizations and popular music sectors); analysis of where and why the state intervenes in popular music activity; and how (and whether) music fits within the ‘turn to culture’ in policy-making over the last twenty years. Where appropriate, brief nation-specific case studies are highlighted as a means of illuminating broader global debates.

Copyright:

2015

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

250 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781135048907

Related ISBNs:

9780415824514, 9780203505700, 9780367597979

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/05/22

Copyrighted By:

Shane Homan, Martin Cloonan, Jennifer Cattermole

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Music, Politics and Government

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.