Cultural capital
Subtitle: the rise and fall of creative Britain
By: Robert Hewison
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781781685914
Subjects: Arts and society; History; Civilization; ART / History / Contemporary (1945-); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes
Description: "What was "Creative Britain"? Was it the "golden age" that Tony Blair vaunted in 2007, or a neoliberal nirvana? In the twenty-first century, culture--the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, the creative industries--have become ever more important to governments, to the economy, and to how people live. Cultural historian Robert Hewison shows how, from Cool Britannia and the Millennium Dome to the Olympics and beyond, Creative Britain rose from the desert of Thatcherism only to fall into the slough of New Labour's managerialism"--
Table of contents: title: Introduction: 'A Golden Age'; title: Under New Public Management; title: Cool Britannia; title: 'The Many Not Just the Few'; title: The Amoeba-and Its Offspring; title: 'To Hell with Targets'; title: The Age of Lead; title: Olympic Rings; title: Just the Few, Not the Many; title: Conclusion : What Next?