ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries is collection of contemporary scholarship on the cultural industries and seeks to re-assert the importance of cultural production and consumption against the purely economic imperatives of the ‘creative industries’.
Across 43 chapters drawn from a wide range of geographic and disciplinary perspectives, this comprehensive volume offers a critical and empirically-informed examination of the contemporary cultural industries.
A range of cultural industries are explored, from videogames to art galleries, all the time focussing on the culture that is being produced and its wider symbolic and socio-cultural meaning. Individual chapters consider their industrial structure, the policy that governs them, their geography, the labour that produces them, and the meaning they offer to consumers and participants.
The collection also explores the historical dimension of cultural industry debates providing context for new readers, as well as critical orientation for those more familiar with the subject. Questions of industry structure, labour, place, international development, consumption and regulation are all explored in terms of their historical trajectory and potential future direction.
By assessing the current challenges facing the cultural industries this collection of contemporary scholarship provides students and researchers with an essential guide to key ideas, issues, concepts and debates in the field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |64 pages
Perspectives on the cultural industries
part |99 pages
Core cultural industries
chapter |10 pages
The Resilience of TV and Its Implications for Media Policy
chapter |11 pages
Between Triple-A, Indie, Casual, and DIY
part |84 pages
Space and Place
chapter |13 pages
Turning the Post-Industrial Ccity into the Ccultural City
part |63 pages
Cultural industries and labour
chapter |13 pages
Management in the Cultural Industries
chapter |14 pages
Emerging Labour Politics in Creative Industries
part |79 pages
Audiences, intermediaries and markets
chapter |11 pages
Popular Music Making and Promotional Work Inside the ‘New' Music Industry
part |63 pages
Policy and the Cultural Industries
part |56 pages
The politics of the cultural industries