Culture, Economy and Politics [electronic resource] : The Case of New Labour /
Hesmondhalgh, David.author.
Oakley, Kate.author.
Lee, David.author.
Nisbett, Melissa.author.
This book focuses on cultural policy in the UK between 1997 and 2010 under the Labour party (or 'New Labour', as it was temporarily rebranded). It is based on interviews with major figures and examines a range of policy areas including the arts, creative industries, copyright, film policy, heritage, urban regeneration and regional policy.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures, Tables and Boxes""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Culture, Politics and Equality: The Challenge for Social Democracy""; ""1.1 What we are trying to do in this book""; ""1.2 Cultural policy as a distinct form of public policy""; ""1.3 Politics, power and democracy""; ""1.4 Social democratic politics and the British Labour Party""; ""1.5 Social democratic cultural policy""; ""1.6 New Labour and the ?Third Way?: Economics, equality and governance""; ""1.7 Assessments of New Labour, culture and the arts""; ""1.8 Outline of the book and research questions""
""2 New Labour, Culture and Creativity""""2.1 New Labour?s cultural policies introduced: Blair?s retrospect""; ""2.2 Cultural policy: The key policy groups and their interests""; ""2.3 New Labour?s cultural policies: Formation, early character and the creative industries concept""; ""2.4 Intellectual roots of New Labour?s cultural policies""; ""2.5 Creativity""; ""2.6 New Labour?s early days: Creative industries mapping and not much else?""; ""2.7 Four aims: Access, excellence, education and creative industries""; ""2.8 Early criticisms, a surge in funding, and strings attached""
""3 The Arts: Access, Excellence and Instrumentalism""""3.1 A golden age for the arts?""; ""3.2 Funding and the lottery""; ""3.3 Flagship projects and other initiatives""; ""3.4 Sponsorship and philanthropy""; ""3.5 An access success? Free admission to museums and galleries""; ""3.6 Targets, audit and the New Public Management""; ""3.7 The arts backlash, cultural value and the ?instrumentalism? debate""; ""3.8 The return to excellence""; ""3.9 Assessing New Labour?s arts policies""; ""4 What Was Creative Industries Policy? Film, Copyright and the Shift to Creative Economy""
""4.1 Creative industries: More than a policy vacuum?""""4.2 New Labour?s film policy""; ""4.3 ?Creative economy? and ?Creative Britain? (revisited)""; ""4.4 Copyright policy and debates""; ""5 Cultural Policy and the Regions""; ""5.1 A case of policy attachment""; ""5.2 Two contexts: Regional arts and cultural industries regeneration""; ""5.3 New Labour?s Third Way regionalism: The Regional Development Agencies take up the creative industries idea""; ""5.4 The regions and creative industries: Early autonomy and achievements""; ""5.5 The limitations of clustering""
""5.6 Other problems in New Labour?s regional creative industries policy""""5.7 The arts and regeneration in the regions""; ""5.8 New Labour?s regional cultural policies assessed""; ""6 Policy Innovation: Nesta and Creative Partnerships""; ""6.1 ?Projects for change?""; ""6.2 Nesta as talent agency""; ""6.3 Creative Partnerships""; ""6.4 Surviving beyond New Labour""; ""7 Heritage""; ""7.1 Heritage in the UK""; ""7.2 New Labour?s modernisation of heritage?""; ""7.3 Social inclusion and the widening of audiences""; ""7.4 Government funding and support for the heritage sector""
""7.5 Assessing heritage under New Labour""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book focuses on cultural policy in the UK between 1997 and 2010 under the Labour party (or 'New Labour', as it was temporarily rebranded). It is based on interviews with major figures and examines a range of policy areas including the arts, creative industries, copyright, film policy, heritage, urban regeneration and regional policy.
Labour Party (Great Britain)
Communication.
Cultural policy.
Political economy.
Children's literature.
Social sciences.
Arts.
Media Studies.
Cultural Policy and Politics.
International Political Economy.
Children's Literature.
Social Sciences, general.
Arts.