SAM's Main Book List

Cultural Policy, Cultural & Creative Industries, Understanding the World We Live In

This list is divided into sub-sections as follows:

• Cultural Policy
  
• Cultural and Creative Industries
  
• Understanding the World We Live In

Cultural Policy and Cultural Planning

Capturing Cultural Value: How culture has become a tool of government policy
By John Holden
Pub Demos 2004 ISBN 1841801399 £10 [£12.64 inc p&p]
An important new essay to add to the debate.  In John Holden’s view, there is a danger in talking in functional terms about the value of culture as arts and cultural organisations have lost the ability to describe their real purpose – producing good work that enriches people’s lives.  He also considers that there is a difficulty in talking about “art for art’s sake”.  The report shows how alternative ways of valuing culture are possible.

Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London public 1747-2001
By Brandon Taylor
Published by Manchester University Press 1999 ISBN 0 7190 5453 2 £18.99 [£24.35 inc p&p]
An absorbing account of the growth of public culture in Great Britain analyses in fascinating detail the politics, geography and social life of metropolitan and national culture in the visual arts. From the birth of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768, through the National Gallery (1824), the V & A (1852), Tate Millbank (1897) the ICA (1947), the Hayward (1968) to The Tate Modern (2001), a series of images of official British culture and its audiences are created.

Art Worlds
By Howard S. Becker
Pub University of California Press 1982 ISBN 0520 05218-8 £12.95 [£15.05 inc p&p]
By ‘art world’, the author (a sociologist) means the network of people whose cooperative activity, organised via their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things, produces the kind of arts works that art world is noted for. From Titian to Comic-Strips, Hollywood film scores and rock and roll tunes as well as Beethoven and Mozart – the scope of his analysis is wide. The focus on the networks breaks from the traditional focus of sociology of art being the art or artist. An important study – well-worth reading.

Networking Culture: The Role of European Cultural Networks
By Gudrun Pehn
Pub Council of Europe 1999 ISBN 92 871 3925 3 £7.50 [£10.22 inc p&p]
A delightful and thoughtful study of networks and their current influence on European cultural policy and planning. Beginning with the origins of the word and historical examples of networks, the author then brings us right up to the present with criteria for networked organisations and the new role of the individual in them. Review

Arts Under Pressure: promoting cultural diversity in the age of globalization
By Joost Smiers
Pub Zed Books 2003 ISBN 1 84277 263 5 £17.95 [£22.05 inc p&p]
This book sees the arts as an arena of struggle – with emotional incompatibilities, social conflicts and questions of status and power. It explores diversity versus mass production and sets out a completely new vision of copyright and suggests a new international treaty on cultural diversity. Important stuff – it should be widely read. Review

Cultural Policy in Action throughout Europe
Pub Council of Europe £6.50 [£8.92 inc p&p]

Cities for a Small Country
By Richard Rogers & Anne Power
Pub Faber & Faber 2000 ISBN 0571206522 £14.99 [£19.54 inc p&p]
The authors of this punchy book use their combined knowledge of architecture, social exclusion and community development to demonstrate ways in which we can all contribute to making our cities healthier and happier places. The general tone is forward thinking and optimistic.  It is about safety, aesthetics and regeneration; of harnessing human resources to ensure our cities can cope with the demands of 21st century living.

City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City
Ed David Bell & Mark Jayne
Pub Ashgate Publishing 2004 ISBN 0754634140 £30 [£34.03 inc p&p]
A collection of essays that explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas – urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters – in cities throughout the world.  With both case studies and conceptual chapters, this is intended to be a comprehensive and integrated primer covering all the necessary topics.  In four parts – Urban Regeneration; Production and Consumptions; Identities, Lifestyles and Forms of Sociability; Rethinking Neighbourhoods/Rethinking Quarters.

Creative Connections: Business and the arts working together to create a more inclusive society
By Phyllida Shaw
Pub Art & Business 2001 ISBN 09540568809 £15 [£18.15 inc p&p]
This report is for anyone interested in partnerships.  Itself, a result of effective partnership between Marks and Spencer, DCMS and A and B it explains why businesses become involved in social enterprises and the arts. Phyllida Shaw uses her own extensive knowledge of successful collaborations to demonstrate the potential benefit for all parties in pooling skills and resources.  Using a range of case studies which provide examples from all perspectives this will provide ideas and first hand examples of joined-up projects.

Riding the Rapids: Urban Life In An Age of Complexity
By Charles Landry
Pub RIBA 2004 ISBN 18599461611 £11.95 [£14.96 inc p&p]
This latest book from Charles Landry (author of The Creative City) explores the dynamics of change that will have a significant impact on British cities over the next 20 years and sets a robust conceptual framework in order to facilitate an understanding of the nature of unfolding change in cities.
Chapters include Conceptual Framework, Faultlines, Battlegrounds, Paradoxes, Drivers, Pulling the Threads Together and Spatial Dynamics.

Towards Cultural Citizenship: Tools for Cultural Policy and Development
by Colin Mercer
Pub Sida 2002 ISBN 91 7844 622 8 £17.50

Cultural Planning : An Urban Renaissance?
By Graeme Evans
Pub Routledge 2001 ISBN 0 415 20732 0 £20.99 [£25.50 inc p&p]
Cultural Planning is the first book on the planning of the arts and the relationships between State arts policy, the cultural economy and city planning. Combining cultural and economic geography with arts and urban policy, it uses case studies and examples from Europe, North America and Asia. The book calls for the adoption or a cultural approach to town planning, greater equality in distribution and integration of cultural provision and urban design, in order to prevent the reinforcement of existing geographical and cultural divides. It uses an historic and contemporary analysis to examine how and why societies have planned for the arts – from classical Athens & Rome to the European Renaissance and its global recreation today. Sections include arts centres, planning for the arts, the cultural economy, European common culture, cities of culture and urban regeneration. To be reviewed.

The Cultural Planning Handbook: An essential Australian Guide
By David Grogan & Colin Mercer
Pub Allen & Unwin 1995 ISBN 1 86373 894 0 out of print
This book provides an overview of what cultural planning is all about, and gives direction to those doing it at local government or community level. The authors start the process with cultural mapping - knowing your cultural resources - and then documents a process to arrive at and prioritise objectives and strategies for cultural development.  It is practical and down-to-earth with creative ideas for surveys, group discussions and other useful methodologies for the process.

Making Sense of Place: New approaches to place marketing
By Chris Murray
Pub Comedia 2001 ISBN 1 873667 18 3  £9.00 [£11.72 inc p&p]
An important critique of place marketing practice.  It promotes an inter-disciplinary and creative approach to understanding places as complex and multi-faceted cultural entities.  Based on research of current practice, sections include 'From Images to Icons', 'Place, Identity and Self', and 'Defining the Solution'.  Its alternative approach is applicable to Cultural Planning and Development as well as place marketing. Review

Culture at the Crossroads: Culture and Cultural Institutions at the Beginning of the 21st Century
By Marc Pachter, Charles Landry
Pub Comedia 2001 ISBN 1 873667 13 2  £9.00 [£11.72 inc p&p] Review

Art For All? Their Policies and Our Culture
Eds: Mark Wallinger and Mary Warnock
Pub: Peer 2000 £18 ISBN 0 - 9539772-0-X Review

Recognising Culture: A series of briefing papers on culture and development
Ed: Francois Matarasso
Pub: Comedia, the Department of Canadian Heritage and UNESCO, 2001, ISBN 1 873667 03 5 LAST FEW COPIES AVAILABLE
Another title from the Comedia team and Matarasso. A series of essays gathered as a contribution to the thinking that if we are to meet the challenges of the new century, we will have to engage with development in the context of, and through the medium, of human culture. Written for people working in development, it is described as a basic introduction to some of the connections between culture and development, opening up questions and debates without providing final answers. Review

Cultural Policy Note No. 1 VAT and book policy:impacts and issues
By Francois Rouet
Pub Council of Europe 1999 ISBN 9287137072 £6.50 [£9.10 inc p&p]

Culture Policy Note No. 4 Balancing Act: 21 Strategic dilemmas in Cultural policy
By Francois Matarasso and Charles Landry
Pub Council of Europe 1999 ISBN 9 2871 3862 1 £6.50 [£8.91 inc p&p]
This little policy note tackles a big subject – the development and management of cultural policy. The authors suggest that this is one of the most complex areas of modern government, a kind of balancing act between competing visions of the role of culture in society. 21 strategic dilemmas are outlined including demonstrating the extremes of the issue and then you, as reader, are asked to choose on a scale where you would position your current policy or its ideal position on the spectrum between the extremes. There are both ‘framework’ dilemmas dealing with underlying conceptual issues and strategy, as well as dilemmas on tactical decisions of how to put policy into practice. Thought-provoking, possibly inspiring.

Cultural Policy Note No. 5 Governance of Culture
By Anthony Everitt
Pub Council of Europe 1999 ISBN 92 871 4067 7 £6.50 [£8.91 inc p&p]

Culture Policy Note No. 6 Culture and Civil Society: New relationships with the third sector
By Rod Fisher and Roger Fox
Pub Council of Europe 2001 ISBN 9 2871 45490 £6.50 [£8.91 inc p&p]
A short study that indicates some of the ways in which the arts and culture can be at the heart of a process to fulfil broader societal objectives. It seeks to demonstrate to policy makers in both the cultural and the third sector (not for profit/voluntary sector/civil society) that there are obvious synergies that could be exploited to their mutual benefit. It includes interesting current examples in practice from across Europe.

Culture Policy Note No. 7 Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity: Mapping the policy domain
By Tony Bennett
Pub Council of Europe 2001 ISBN 9 2871 47949 £6.50 [£9.07 inc p&p]
A thoughtful little essay on the current and complex challenge of diversity. It looks at relations between cultural policy and cultural diversity based on research in seven European countries including the UK.

Culture Policy Note No. 8: Cultural Employment in Europe
By Andy Feist
Pub Council of Europe 2000 ISBN 9 2871 4385 4 £6.50 [£8.91 inc p&p]

Cultural Policy Note No. 9 Decentralisation: trends in European cultural policies
By Ilkka Heiskanen
Pub Council of Europe 2001 ISBN 92871479557 £6.50 [£8.92 inc p&p]

Arts In England attendance, participation and attitudes in 2001
By Adrienne Skelton, Ann Bridgwood, Kathryn Duckworth
Pub ACE 2002 ISBN 0 7287 0893 0 £10 [£13.66 inc p&p]

Creative Britain
By: Chris Smith
Pub: Faber & Faber 1998 out of print ISBN 0 571 19665

Building Jerusalem - Art, Industry and the British Millennium
by John Pick & Malcolm Anderton
Pub: Harwood Academic Press, 1999, £27.50 (Hardback) ISBN 9057024349
A broad canvas - cultural policy and the arts in Britain from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II - is explored with wit and insight. Fascinating stories emerge of Lotteries past and present, the Great Exhibition, and the role of the State in arts patronage since World War II. Chapters include The Glory of Commercial Art, The Horror of Tourism, and The Mirage of the Millennium. Review

On The Edge: Culture and the arts in remote and rural areas
edited by Anne Douglas
Pub Robert Gordon University 2002 ISBN 1 901 085 69 4 £10
Review

Building Legible Cities
By Andrew Kelly
Pub Adshel 2001 £6.99 [£9.71 inc p&p]
"We live in a global economy. As a result cities have to rethink how they present themselves, both to their existing residents, businesses and visitors, and to the outside world." The book sets questions cities need to address, including "How can cities be made more understandable and enjoyable?  How can cities communicate more effectively with their users, providing simple but comprehensive information? What is the role of design, branding an public art in the 21^st century city? What does 'place' mean in the digital economy?"

The Art of Regeneration: Nottingham 1996: Conference Papers
by Charles Landry, Lesley Greene, Francois Matarasso and Franco Bianchini
Pub Comedia 1995 £19.95 ISBN 1 873667 96 5
A series of papers that explore urban renewal through cultural activity. The papers are based on 15 examples and explain why the use of arts in urban regeneration needs a radical rethink.

The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators
By Charles Landry
Pub Earthscan 2000 £19.95 ISBN 1-85383-613
An important new book that describes itself as an "ideas bank" written with the intention of providing readers with a new more integrated and holistic approach to thinking about and analysing cities. As well as big ideas - calling for a paradigm shifting in urban planning - this is also a practical toolkit, likely to have readers thinking "I could do that". People and their creativity are central to the book's message. A must for all those in cultural planning, and the rest of us (more planned for than planning) - so we know what could happen. Review

The Richness of Cities (Final Report) Urban Policy in a New Landscape
by Ken Worpole and Liz Greenhalgh
Pub: Comedia in association with Demos 1999 £15.00 ISBN 1 873667 28 0
Built on the positive premise that cities solve more problems than they create, this report develops four themes of trust, livelihood, habitat and connectedness. It covers culture, creativity and learning, and promotes a greater understanding of the many and varied contributions from ethnic minority cultures, as well as from participatory arts programmes which encourage greater individual and community identity.

Differing Diversities: Cultural policy and cultural diversity
By Tony Bennett
Pub Council of Europe 2001 ISBN 9287146497 £13.50 [£16.87 inc p&p]

Cultural Policy: a short guide
Pub Council of Europe 2000 ISBN 9287143013 £7.50 [£10.25 inc p&p]

In From The Margins: A contribution to the debate on culture and development in Europe
Pub Council of Europe 1997 ISBN 9287133360 £12.99 [£17.63 inc p&p]

The International Journal of Cultural Policy - aims to provide an outlet for an interdisciplinary and international exploration of the nature, function and impact of cultural policies. It includes a broad view of cultural policy, encompassing culture as a "way of life" as well as culture in the narrower sense of the arts and cultural industries. It is concerned both with the policies of institutions and with the wider discourses which relate to the general conditions of culture. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10286632.html where you can view a sample copy online. A related site - www.culturalstudiesarena.com International Intelligence on Culture is a key source of information. It brings together a multinational team of cultural policy analysts, researchers and managers to undertake policy intelligence, consultancy, research, training and advice services. www.intelculture.org The Council of Europe's Cultural Policies Research and Development Unit has produced an impressive number of publications and has a range of information available online. www.coe.int A Compendium of Cultural Policies across Europe is available on www.culturalpolicies.net. It has up-to-date information on cultural policy in 23 countries and allows sophisticated searches and comparisons to be made.

see also Arts in Urban Regeneration and Arts in Rural Regeneration

See also New Thinking

Cultural & Creative Industries

Art Management: Entrepreneurial Style
By Giep Hagoort
Eburon 2001 ISBN 90 5166 802 3  £19.50
Giep Hagoort runs the Master Programme of Art and Media Management at Utrecht School of the Arts.  The book is truly international in its examples and suggests that arts managers need to develop a 'glocal' attitude.  To let the start of Chapter 1 speak for itself:  'This book is about art management, entrepreneurial style.  It is intended to give practical, theoretical and conceptual insight into the management of profit and non-profit cultural organizations.  The combination of art, culture and management and of theory and practice will, we believe, provide a real aid to those who want to acquire knowledge about running cultural businesses. The readers we have in mind are people who are involved with educational programmes: students, participants, teachers and programme directors.  The reader will find a lot of practical cases, case studies and learning questions, which will aid the understanding of the complexity of art and cultural management.  We also aim to reach artists, leaders and team members of cultural projects, managers of cultural organizations and other professionals who are interested in linking general management issues to the art and cultural sector. Review

Arts Management
By Derrick Chong
Pub Routledge 2002 ISBN 0 415 23682 7  £19.99 [£22.95 inc p&p]
Review

Arts Administration
by John Pick and Malcolm Anderton
Pub: E & FN Spon Second edition 1996
£29.99
A more academic text, which proposes that the arts administrator must be a unique mix of manager, animator, teacher, critic, and entrepreneur. It provides an overview of the historical and current context in Britain, with some international comparisons. Interesting case studies at the back.

The Creative Economy: How People Make Money From Ideas
By John Howkins
Pub Penguin 2001 ISBN 0 14 028794 9 £8.99 [£11.83 p&p]
This book explores the importance of copyright and patents in creative products, and provides statistical analysis of 15 core creative industries – including art, crafts and performing arts, as well as views on managing creativity and how to treat creativity as your major asset.

Creative Europe: On Governance and Management of Artistic Creativity in Europe
By Danielle Cliché, Ritva Mitchell, Andreas Wiesand
Pub: ERICarts 2002 ISBN 3 930395 59 2 £17.50 [£21.60 inc p&p]
An impressive piece of research and thinking that covers 13 case studies, 20 country profiles and 6 sectoral analyses. It explores the practical challenges faced by artists (across art forms) in Europe and calls for innovative partnerships and networks to improve support. (see www.creativeurope.info) Review

The Cultural Industries
by David Hesmondhalgh
Pub: Sage Publications 2002  ISBN 0761954538 £18.99
The author defines the Cultural Industries as involved in the production of social meaning and more precisely his core cultural industries are those centrally concerned with the industrial production and dissemination of cultural 'works'of all kinds -programmes, films, records, books, comics, images, magazines, newspapers, etc -which Hesmondhalgh relabels 'texts'.  So, for the purposes of the book -the core cultural industries comprise advertising and marketing, broadcasting, film industries, the internet industry, the music industries (including live performance), print and electronic publishing, video and computer games.  Theatre, and the making, exhibition and sale of arts works are defined as 'peripheral' cultural industries because of their lack of industrial forms of production and reproduction.
The book contains a political economy approach with aspects of cultural studies, sociology, communication studies and social theory.  Its central themes are explaining and assessing patterns of change/continuity in the Cultural industries since the 1970's.

The Culture Business: Management Strategies for the Arts-Related Business
By Dag Björkegren
Pub Routledge 1996 ISBN 0 415 12235 X out of print
The Culture Business is a reflection of the growing awareness in the business world that managing culture requires a different frame of reference from that of other areas of industry. The book takes a closer look at the activities of publishing houses, record companies and film companies and presents data on the organisation and strategic management of arts-related industries. The author charts new approaches to risk management and the ‘multi-rational’ enterprise. Chapter titles include The Aesthetic Dimension, A Profession for gentlemen, So You Want to be a Rock-‘n’-roll Star, and Excursus: what can organisation and management theory learn from art?

From Maestro To Manager - Critical Issues in Arts and Culture Management
eds Marian Fitzgibbon and Anne Kelly
Pub: Oak Tree Press 1997 out of print ISBN 1 86076 041 4
The first book to look at arts management across Europe, with contributions from academics and practitioners in Ireland, the UK, Spain, Denmark and elsewhere. Sections cover strategic planning, marketing, participation and consumption patterns, innovative aspects of contemporary arts practice, and human resource issues in cultural management. Interesting reading for those studying and practising arts management.

The Independents - Britain's New Cultural Entrepreneurs
by Charles Leadbeater and Kate Oakley
Pub Demos 1999 £9.95 ISBN 1 898309965
The Independents are people working as freelancers or running micro-businesses in the cultural industries (or some of them). The study covers four cities, and although it leaves many stones unturned, the results make interesting reading. It advocates new policies to support the Independents in education, business support, finance and arts policy.

Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain
By Robert Protherough and John Pick
Pub by Imprint Academic 2003 ISBN 0907845533 £12.95 [£16.32 inc p&p]
The core premise of this book is that the new orthodoxy labelled by the authors as “modern managerialism” far from solving problems is actually the cause of them. They refute the notion that ‘management’ exists, or that there are universal management skills, and believe that modern management practices have all but destroyed politics, education, culture and religion. Robert Protherough’s background is in education, and as a lay preacher and John Pick’s is in cultural policy-making and arts management. Chapters include The Cultures of Management, How Manager’s Behave, Management as an Academic Subject, Managing the Arts, Managing the Schools, Managing the Deity, Rebranding Britain, The Real World: Management in Literature and Bursting the Management Bubble.

Managing Dance: Current Issues and Future Strategies
eds Linda Jasper and Jeanette Siddall
Pub: Northcote House 1999 out of print ISBN 0 7463 0920 1
A welcome first - a book that describes, analyses and comments upon dance management. Each chapter is written by a leading practitioner in that field. The scope is broad, from managing dance artists and dance products, to dance participation and dance policies. The book presents a number of challenges, including the unique nature of the artist's vision, and the manager's role in nurturing and facilitating the artistic product. Review

Managing the Cultural Sector - essential competencies for managers in Arts, Culture and Heritage in Ireland
by Paula Clancy
Pub: Oak Tree Press Dublin 1994 £12.95 1 87285377 3
A fascinating study of the cultural sector in Ireland, and of the roles of managers in it. References are made to MCI and other business models of management, and competencies are related to the tasks involved in cultural management. The context for arts management is examined, the backgrounds and training of cultural managers, and their attitudes to their jobs. There are recommendations for fostering good management in the cultural sector.

Surfing The Long Wave: Knowledge entrepreneurship in Britain
by Charles Leadbeater and Kate Oakley
Pub: Demos, 2001, ISBN 1 84180 045 7 £9.95 [incl p&p £12.79])
Based on a three year study, this explodes some of the myths about entrepreneurs and looks in more detail at how they work and how they build teams around them. It also outlines a possible future and makes recommendations to Government and others. Review

Art Matters - Reflecting on Culture
by John Tusa
Pub Methuen 2000 £9.99 ISBN 9 780413 750600
A series of reasoned reflections on the current state of the arts in Britain as seen by John Tusa - broadcaster and now General Manager of the Barbican Centre, London. There are three sections - Beliefs, Politics and Actions, and the titles of the essays reveal something of their contents - "I'm worried about Tony", "The Cart and the Horse, which came first the market or the arts?", and "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my identity." They are personal, passionate and sometimes provoking. The A-Z of Running an Arts Centre is an interesting account of the key issues for arts management today. Review

Balancing Act: artists’ labour markets and the tax and benefits systems
By Sheila Galloway, Robert Lindley, Rhys Davies and Fiona Scheibl
Pub Arts Council of England 2003 ISBN 0728709031 £10 [£14.10 inc p&p]
Findings from a series of focus groups with practicing artists, exploring in a qualitative way their experiences of employment in artistic practice and other fields.

The DCMS (Department of Culture Media and Sport) defines the creative industries as follows: (downloaded September 03) We define the creative industries as those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property. This includes advertising, architecture, the art and antiques market, crafts, design, designer fashion, film and video, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts, publishing, software and computer games, television and radio. http://www.culture.gov.uk/creative_industries/default.htm Cultivate Interactive is a Web magazine which is funded under the European Commission's Digital heritage and Cultural Content (DIGICULT) programme. http://www.cultivate-int.org/ Arts Council England has produced a free downloadable publication Artists in figures This report provides information on the size of the artistic labour force, artists’ employment status, employment tenure, unemployment, their working hours, pay and multiple job-holding. It also describes the characteristics of artists; their gender, age, educational qualifications and where they live. Published: 2003 http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/information/publications_recent.php

See also Value of the Arts and Education work/participatory arts/arts in other sectors sections.

Understanding the World We Live In

Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980s
By Chin-tao Wu
Pub by Verso 2002 ISBN 1859844723 £12.00 [£16.83 inc p&p]
This book grew out of a PhD thesis. It covers Britain and the USA in the decade of Thatcher and Reagan and tracks the move from the welfare state to enterprise culture, trends on privatisation of culture and the power of the corporate world. A central premise of the study is that contemporary art, along with other cultural products, functions as a currency of both material and symbolic value for corporations, and their chief executives. The author explores public arts funding, the changing role of government in the arts, how arts institutions have embraced the enterprise culture, corporate arts awards, corporate arts collections and corporate showcasing of contemporary arts. The book includes fascinating material on who are the guardians of the enterprise culture looking at Boards of Trustees, their background, conflicts of interest and in particular examining the Tate Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art in America. Review

Cultural Methodologies
Ed: Jim McGuigan
Pub: Sage 1997 £17.99 ISBN 0 80397485 X
A range of contributors tackle issues around research in Cultural Studies. In the author’s own words “The book is divided into three parts: Methodologies, Researches and Reflections. The first part outlines a set of methodological issues concerning critique and practicality in cultural studies. It also includes consideration of ethics and the feminist relationship to cultural studies. The second part concretizes matters with reference to actual research, presenting illustrative samplers rather than a catalogue of findings. The final part reflects upon where cultural studies has reached as an intellectual project and the institutional conditions in which it is conducted. In general, the book aims to equip new researchers with a broad understanding of what they are letting themselves in for. It should be of use not only to career researchers but also to students conducting projects that involve research from undergraduate to postgraduate levels.

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction
By John Storey
Pub Pearson Education 2001 3rd Edition ISBN 0582423263-5 £20 [£23.78 inc p&p] Special Offer
Written for students and lecturers in cultural studies. A clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Sections include What is Popular Culture? The Culture and Civilisation Tradition, Gender and Sexuality, Marxism, Postmodernism, and the Politics of the Popular. The lists of relevant websites lead the reader further into the subject matter (and see Reader below).

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader
By John Storey
Pub Pearson Education 1998 2nd Edition ISBN £21 [£27.52 inc p&p] Special Offer
A theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture within cultural studies. The reader contains work by the theorists and critics discussed in John Storey’s “An Introduction” (see entry above) and also contains work by significant others. Sections cover the culture and civilisation tradition, culturalism, structuralism and post structuralism, Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism. There is also coverage of current debates in the study of popular culture.

No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
By Naomi Klein
Pub Flamingo 2001 ISBN 0006530400 £8.99 [£12.55 inc p&p]
An important book of our time. A convincing analysis of the rise of the superbrand and the birth of resistance to it. As Naomi Klein says in the introduction “The book is an attempt to analyse and document the forces opposing corporate rule, and to lay out the particular set of cultural and economic conditions that made the emergence of that opposition inevitable. “No Space” examines the surrender of culture and education to marketing, “No Choice” reports on how the promise of a vastly increased array of cultural choice was betrayed by the forces of mergers, predatory franchising, synergy and corporate censorship. “No Jobs” examines the labour market trends that are changing working patterns and relationships.

The Selfish Gene
By Richard Dawkins
Pub Oxford University Press 1989 ISBN 0192860925 £8 [£11.59 inc p&p] Special Offer
A gene’s eye view of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. The chapter headings alone invite the reader in – Why are people?; the replicators; immortal coils; the gene machine; Aggression: stability and the selfish machine; genemanship; family planning; battle of the generations; battle of the sexes; you scratch my back, I’ll ride on yours; memes, the new replicators; nice guys finish first; the long reach of the gene. A best-seller.

The Human Zoo
By Desmond Morris
Pub Vintage 1994 ISBN 0099482118 £6.99 [£9.59 inc p&p]
The second book in the Naked Ape trilogy, this sees the city not as concrete jungle but as human zoo, and proposes that city-dwelling humans exhibit all the dysfunctional behaviours of zoo animals – and more. The modern human animal is no longer living in conditions natural for his species. Problems of survival are overcome and there is time to spare. Being poor at relaxing, humans create ever more and more elaborate activities. Chapters include Tribes and Super-Tribes, Status and Super-Status, Sex and Super sex, In-Groups and Out-Groups, Imprinting and Mal-Imprinting, The Stimulus Struggle, and The Childlike Adult.

Art: What Is It Good For?
By David Lee, Ricardo Floodsky, Andre McIlroy
Pub Hodder & Stoughton  2002  ISBN 0340848375 £5.99  [£8.56 inc p&p]
A neat little format ' six essays each taking an individual swipe at big issues ' arts for art's sake, or art as an accountable social activity, artists as other or engaged with the real world, conceptual art v traditional art.  Interpretation v arts speaks for itself.  All focus on the visual arts and its relationship to the contemporary world ' a must read if you are engaged in the management of art now. Review

Towards 2010: new times new challenges for the arts
By Robert Hewison and the Henley Centre for Forecasting
Pub: the Arts Council of England 2000 £10.00 [£14 inc p&p] ISBN 0-7287-0811-6
Two things in one volume - firstly, an essay by Robert Hewison on what the cultural landscape might look like in 2010.  It considers changes currently taking place, the form the arts will take in the future and their role in society.  Secondly, there is demographic and other data examined by The Henley Centre for Forecasting to pain a picture of what Britain will be like in 2010, and what this will mean for the arts.  Stimulating and thought-provoking material that will be of interest to artists and policy-makers. Review

The Creative Age - Knowledge and Skills for the new economy
by Kimberley Seltzer and Tom Bentley
Pub Demos 1999 £9.95 ISBN 1 898309701
Creativity is what we need to thrive in the new knowledge economy. It is not a matter of what we know, but can we apply our knowledge creatively, and creatively can be learntt. This book calls for a major overhaul of the National Curriculum as part of its radically different view of education.

To Our Mutual Advantage
by Charles Leadbeater and Ian Christie
Pub Demos 1999 £9.95 ISBN 1 898309 84 1
A review and analysis of mutuals and co-operatives that shows the significant position that they occupy in providing services today, and factors that influence their success. Mutuality had its heyday in the 19th century - perhaps it can be reborn in the 21st century. Review

An Inclusive Future? - Disability, social change and opportunities for greater inclusion by 2010
by Ian Christie and Gavin Mensah-Coker
Pub Demos 1999 £11.95 ISBN 1 84180 0007
A fascinating study that looks ahead at the impact that could be made on the inclusion of disabled people in society. Will we seize the opportunities presented now within the major changes taking place in transport, policy making, welfare and employment, to remove barriers and provide equal rights for disabled people?

Living on Thin Air The New Economy with a Blueprint for the 21st Century
by Charles Leadbeater
Pub: Penguin 2000 out of print ISBN 0 140 27793 5
At work, do you make anything tangible, that can be weighed, moved around, measured and stockpiled, or do you trade, write, design, talk, create - dealing with intangible ideas and knowledge - the "thin air" of the title? This is a major new study on the knowledge industry, which reminds us that the "real assets of the modern economy come out of our heads not out of the ground" and they are "ideas, knowledge, skills, talent and creativity." The author characterises recent policy as picking a path between the demands of the market (new right) and community (old left) , and he calls for a new goal for the new century - to reorganise society to maximise the creation and use of knowledge, and the book is a radical plan for how to do that. I particularly liked the Delia Smith / cookery books analogy for globalisation, and any serious book whose first chapter is entitled "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" must immediately endear itself to all parents/relatives of recent under 5's. Review

The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol II
By Manuel Castells
Pub Blackwell Publishing 2003 ISBN 1557868743 £13 [£17.71 inc p&p] Special Offer
This is an account of the two great and conflicting trends now shaping the world – globalisation and identity. On the one hand, the powerful influence of information technology, and on the other, expressions of collective identity such as feminism, environmentalism, and those built around nation, ethnicity or belief. An important book to enable us to understand the changing world we live in.

Out of Our Minds - Learning to Be Creative
By Ken Robinson
Pub: Capstone 2001 £15.99 ISBN 1-84112-125-8
Why is it essential to develop creativity, promote creativity, and what is involved in developing it? This book tackles these questions and argues for radical changes in how we think about intelligence and human resources and in how we educate people to meet the extraordinary challenges of the 21st century. Review

Writing the New Economy: 50 Books that define the New Economy
By John Middleton
Wiley 2000 ISBN 184112 106 1 £15 [£18.66 inc p&p]
Just the job for busy people. Reviews of 50 books that explore various facets of the New Economy (globalisation, technology’s impact on organisations, successful e-business models and the changing nature of working life). All 50 of them challenge our thinking about and inform our understanding of the New Economy. Read it instead of the books themselves or as a guide to which ones to read cover to cover!

Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society
By: Raymond Williams
Pub: HarperCollins 1988 £9.99 [incl p&p £12.95] ISBN 0 00 686150 4

The Search for Meaning: The London International Festival of Theatre Lecture
by Charles Handy
Pub: Lemos Crane 1996 £8.99 ISBN 1 898001 22 7
A beautifully produced little book, that captures Charles Handy's address given in the 1995 LIFT Festival. Handy is reflecting on life as we live it now, and exploring the value of the arts, and theatre in particular as a place to think and a means of bringing some sense to bear on the current world. Refreshing, thought-provoking, challenging. Highly recommended.

The Tipping Point: How little things can make a big difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
Pub: Little, Brown and Company 2000 £14.99 ISBN: 0-316-648523 Review

Culture and Learning: Creating arts and heritage education projects
Pub: Arts Council of England 2002 ISBN 0 7287 0885 X Free [£2.84 inc p&p]

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