Cultural Policy and Democracy

This volume discusses how public cultural policies relate to the principle political issue of democracy. Contributors focus on analysing the relationship between a political system and culture and the arts as an empirical field. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

List of contents

1. Cultural policy and democracy: an introduction Geir Vestheim 2. Democratic cultural policy: democratic forms and policy consequences Clive Gray 3. Autonomy or democratic cultural policy: that is the question Roger Blomgren 4. Cultural policy-making: negotiations in an overlapping zone between culture, politics and money Geir Vestheim 5. UNESCO and cultural diversity: democratisation, commodification or governmentalisation of culture? Miikka Pyykkönen 6. Post-Soviet transformation of Lithuanian state cultural policy: the meanings of democratisation Egle Rindzeviciute 7. Democratising the popular: the case of pop music in France and Britain David L. Looseley 8. Cultural democratisation in the struggle between public intellectuals and the state: the debate on the ‘Theatre of the People’ in France (1895-1905) Vincent Dubois

About the author

Geir Vestheim is a professor of cultural policy studies at Telemark University College, Norway. He has written many theoretical and historical articles and books about cultural policy, and is one of the founders of cultural policy studies as a research field in the Nordic countries and internationally.

Summary

This volume discusses how public cultural policies relate to the principle political issue of democracy. Contributors focus on analysing the relationship between a political system and culture and the arts as an empirical field. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

Product details

• Assisted by: Geir Vestheim (Editor), Vestheim Geir (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032930664
• ISBN: 978-1-032-93066-4
• No. of pages: 130
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, The arts: general issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, The arts: general topics