ABSTRACT
The current interest of policy makers in contemporary popular music is connected to the growing worldwide interest in development of the creative industries and creative cities. In contrast to the move away from the inner cities that characterized the post-World War Two 'Fordist' era of capitalism, and the resultant separation of the city into zones of urban production and suburban consumption, the period since the 1980s has seen a growing worldwide interest in the development of cities as sites for creativity and consumption. Cultural policy developed in the post-World War Two period as both a means of directing public funding to the arts and cultural sectors, and a set of institutional investments to develop cultural citizenship and national identity in modern nation-states. This chapter draws upon a report undertaken for the Brisbane City Council in 2001 through the Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre, CIRAC at the Queensland University of Technology.
