The Warhol economy
Subtitle: how fashion, art, and music drive New York City
By: Elizabeth Currid.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780691128375
Subjects: Cultural industries -- New York (State) -- New York; Popular culture -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York; New York (N.Y.)Social life and customs
Description: "Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands? If you said "office," think again. In The Warhol Economy, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as--if not more than--finance, real estate, and law. And these creative industries are fueled by the social life that whirls around the clubs, galleries, music venues, and fashion shows where creative people meet, network, exchange ideas, pass judgments, and set the trends that shape popular culture. The implications of Currid's argument are far-reaching, and not just for New York. Urban policymakers, she suggests, have not only seriously underestimated the importance of the cultural economy, but they have failed to recognize that it depends on a vibrant creative social scene. They haven't understood, in other words, the social, cultural, and economic mix that Currid calls the Warhol economy."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Art, culture, and New York City; title: How it all began : from Warhol's factory to P. Diddy's bling; title: Becoming creative; title: The social life of creativity; title: The economics of a dance floor; title: Creating buzz, selling cool; title: The rise of global tastemakers : policy implications for the creative economy.