Cultural Work - Understanding the Cultural Industries

Cultural Work examines the conditions of the production of culture. It maps the changed character of work within the cultural and creative industries, examines the increasing diversity of cultural work and offers new methods for analysing and thinking about cultural workplaces. Studying television, popular music, performance art, radio, film production and live performance it offers occupational biographies, cultural histories, practitioners' evidence, considerations of the economic environment as well as new ways of observing and studying the cultural industries.

List of contents

List of contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction: cultural work, cultural workplace - looking at the cultural industries, PART I Conditions, PART II Practice, PART III Organization, PART IV Representation, Index

About the author

Andrew Beck is head of Communication Culture and Media at Coventry University. His co-author of AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction, also published by Routledge.

Summary

"Cultural Work" examines the conditions of the production of culture. It maps the changed character of work within the cultural and creative industries, examines the increasing diversity of cultural work and offers new methods for analysing and thinking about cultural workplaces.

Product details

• Assisted by: Andrew Beck (Editor), Andrew (Coventry University Beck (Editor), Beck Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2002
• EAN: 9780415289528
• ISBN: 978-0-415-28952-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 322 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities