Culture crash
Subtitle: the killing of the creative class
By: Scott Timberg
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780300195880
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Creative ability; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes; Social change; Social classes; HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century; Popular culture; History
Description: "Social criticism about the Internet, the economic downturn, and post-industrial culture that considers the human costs and unintended consequences of the new world on artists and other cultural workers--the shuttering of bookstores, the collapse of newspapers, the toll of music piracy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: When culture works; title: Disappearing clerks and the lost sense of place; title: Of permatemps and content serfs; title: Indie Rock's endless road; title: The architecture meltdown; title: Idle dreamers: curse of the creative class; title: The end of print; title: Self-inflicted wounds; title: Lost in the supermarket: winner-take-all.