Popular Music Industries and the State: Policy Notes

by Shane Homan, Martin Cloonan, Jennifer Cattermole

Overview

This volume studies the relationships between government and the popular music industries, comparing three Anglophone nations: Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. At a time when issues of globalization and locality are seldom out of the news, musicians, fans, governments, and industries are forced to reconsider older certainties about popular music activity and their roles in production and consumption circuits. The decline of multinational recording companies, and the accompanying rise of promotion firms such as Live Nation, exemplifies global shifts in infrastructure, profits and power. Popular music provides a focus for many of these topics—and popular music policy a lens through which to view them.

The book has four central themes: the (changing) role of states and industries in popular music activity; assessment of the central challenges facing smaller nations competing within larger, global music-media markets; comparative analysis of music policies and debates between nations (and also between organizations and popular music sectors); analysis of where and why the state intervenes in popular music activity; and how (and whether) music fits within the ‘turn to culture’ in policy-making over the last twenty years. Where appropriate, brief nation-specific case studies are highlighted as a means of illuminating broader global debates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135048907
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/16/2015
Series:	Routledge Studies in Popular Music
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Shane Homan is Associate Professor of English, Communications, and Performance Studies at Monash University, Australia.

Martin Cloonan is Professor of Popular Music Politics at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Jennifer Cattermole is Lecturer in Music at Otago University, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Making Music Policy: International Perspectives, National Solutions 3. Local, National or Global? National Identity and Policy 4. Popular Music and the Creative/Cultural City 5. 'Too ‘Popular': Music as Intellectual Property 6. Indigenous Music Policy: Australia and New Zealand 7. Policy Research and the Music Industries 8. Conclusion: Policy Futures