Cultural Policy & the World We
Live in
This list is divided into sub-sections as follows:
Cultural Policy and Cultural Planning
Navigating Difference; cultural diversity
and audience development
By 26 Different Authors
Pub Arts Council England 2006 ISBN 0728710773 £15
Navigating difference is a debate about issues that
are at the heart of what it means to be British today.
Leading voices from the art world discuss the relevance
of cultural diversity and cultural identity to the arts.
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Capturing Cultural Value: How culture has
become a tool of government policy
By John Holden
Pub Demos 2004 ISBN 1841801399
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.
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Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London
public 1747-2001
By Brandon Taylor
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 0520052188
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 928713925 3 £7.50
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A delightful and thoughtful study of networks and their
current influence on European 7. 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
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.
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Cultural Policy in Action throughout Europe
Pub Council of Europe £6.50
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Entrepreneurial Arts Leader: Cultural
Policy, Change and Reinvention
by Ruth Rentschler
Pub University of Queensland 2002 ISBN 0702232955
Culture Vultures Is UK Arts Policy Damaging The Arts?
by Munira Mirza
Pub: Policy Exchange. 2006 ISBN 0-9551909-0-8
A new report from Policy Exchange examines the impact of government policy on the arts. Culture Vultures: Is UK arts policy damaging the arts? is a collection of essays edited by Munira Mirza. Politicians today often claim that the arts are now not only good in themselves, but make a vital contribution to the economy, urban regeneration and social inclusion. But is there actually any evidence to support this? This collection of essays shows that many of the claims made about the social benefits of arts are exaggerated, resulting in wasteful projects of poor artistic quality. The criteria for funding means that arts organisations are drowning under a tidal wave of 'tick boxes and targets'.
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Cities for a Small Country
By Richard Rogers & Anne Power
Pub Faber & Faber 2000 ISBN 0571206522 £14.99
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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
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
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.
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Riding the Rapids: Urban Life In An Age
of Complexity
By Charles Landry
Pub RIBA 2004 ISBN 18599461611 £11.95
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.
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Towards Cultural Citizenship: Tools for Cultural
Policy and Development
by Colin Mercer
Pub Sida 2002 ISBN 91 7844 622 8
Culture must be looked upon and treated as a basic driving
force behind human behaviour and central to human development.
The book aims to clear the path for a broader conception
of culture, and to contribute to a new conceptual framework
in the field of cultural policies for human development.
It is written for policy-makers, researchers and what
the authors call “stakeholders in the cultural
field”. It looks to provide a new toolkit,
and collects research findings from disparate areas.
Concepts included ‘cultural capital’, ‘the
cultural field’, ‘cultural ecology’,
‘cultural mapping’ and ‘cultural planning’,
and ‘cultural indicators’. Links are
made to citizenship, identities, social (and cultural)
capital and democracy. It recognises the inherent
complexity of culture. ‘It is made up of
narratives, stories, images, sense of place and of belonging:
the resources of identity and of cultural citizenship’.
A fascinating book, collecting material from around
the world including case studies, posing good questions
and making contextual, specific and support proposals.
Cultural Planning : An Urban Renaissance?
By Graeme Evans
Pub Routledge 2001 ISBN 041507320
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.
Making Sense of Place: New approaches to place
marketing
By Chris Murray
Pub Comedia 2001 ISBN 1 873667 18 3 £9.00
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
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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
An important little book that clarifies and challenges
in equal measure. It will stimulate thinking on
what is a cultural institution today, why do they exist,
and how is culture being redefined and how are culture,
commerce, education and entertainment converging on
each other. It is an advocacy document that asks
some difficult questions – is there something
unique about the category of insight we call cultural?
Are traditional cultural institutions refugees from
or collaborators with the modern age? A broad
range of relevant contemporary issues are covered –
technology as arts, generational differences, an inclusive
culture, real and live or virtual and fake, artists
and society. Highly readable and very useful.
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Art For All? Their Policies and Our Culture
Eds: Mark Wallinger and Mary Warnock
Pub: Peer 2000 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
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Culture Policy Note No. 1 VAT and book
policy:impacts and issues
By Francois Rouet
Pub Council of Europe 1999 ISBN 9287137072 £6.50
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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
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.
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Culture Policy Note No. 5 Governance of Culture
By Anthony Everitt
Pub Council of Europe 1999 ISBN 92 871 4067 7 £6.50
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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
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.
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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
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.
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Culture Policy Note No. 8: Cultural Employment
in Europe
By Andy Feist
Pub Council of Europe 2000 ISBN 9 2871 4385 4 £6.50
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Culture Policy Note No. 9 Decentralisation:
trends in European cultural policies
By Ilkka Heiskanen
Pub Council of Europe 2001 ISBN 92871479557 £6.50
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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
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Building Jerusalem - Art, Industry and
the British Millennium
by John Pick & Malcolm Anderton
Pub: Harwood Academic Press, 1999, 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
This is papers from an international conference promoting
arts and heritage development in remote areas.
It sets a context of culture as a force for development,
of the globalization of society, and populations in
peripheral areas “ageing”. With examples
drawn from countries across Europe and papers presented
by key writers and thinkers in cultural policy, this
is an important publication that will help push the
debates onwards. Review
Building Legible Cities
By Andrew Kelly
Pub Adshel 2001 £6.99 [£9.71 inc p&p] Availalbe here at SAMs
"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
21st 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 1873667965
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.
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The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators
By Charles Landry
Pub Earthscan 2000 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.
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Differing Diversities: Cultural policy and cultural
diversity
By Tony Bennett
Pub Council of Europe 2001 ISBN 9287146497 £13.50
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Cultural
Policy: a short guide
Pub Council of Europe 2000 ISBN 9287143013 £7.50
This is a personal analysis of the ingredients that
should go into a good cultural policy. It reflects on
the reasons why government needs to be concerned with
culture, suggests basic rules for building policy, and
sets out the arguments likely to be encountered in the
process. It is designed to provide a starting point
for anybody coming to the subject afresh, and a useful
reminder of the issues for those grappling with policy
on a day-to-day basis.
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In From The Margins: A contribution to the debate
on culture and development in Europe
Pub Council of Europe 1997 ISBN 9287133360 £12.99
Why is culture not a more central part of public policy
in Europe? Is there a future for European culture?
What role can it play in the process of sustainable
development as we enter the twenty-first century?
These are some of the questions addressed in this report,
whose main concern is to raise awareness of two interlocking
priorities for governments today – to bring the
millions of dispossessed and disadvantaged Europeans
in from the margins of society and to bring cultural
policy in from the margins of governance. Its
findings will be of interest and value to European stages,
policy makers and public authorities, and to all those
involved in culture and development in Europe.
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Only Connect: Arts touring and rural communities
By Francois Matarasso
Pub Comedia 2004 ISBN 1873667825 £10
This is the first large scale study of rural touring
work, and was commissioned by the National Rural Touring
Form. It comprises 9 case studies and the results
of a literature review, and analysis of a wide range
of schemes’ work. It covers the logistics
of rural touring schemes, the economic aspects, artistic
aspects, community cohesion and development, and identifies
some challenges for the future. Review
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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.
Creative Britain
By: Chris Smith
Pub: Faber & Faber 1998 out of print ISBN 0 571
19665
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
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
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Arts Administration
by John Pick and Malcolm Anderton
Pub: E & FN Spon Second edition 1996
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
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 3930395592 Out of Stock
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.
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The Cultural Industries
by David Hesmondhalgh
Pub: Sage Publications 2002 ISBN 0761954538
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 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.
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Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in
Modern Britain
By Robert Protherough and John Pick
Pub by Imprint Academic 2003 ISBN 0907845533
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.
Surfing The Long Wave: Knowledge entrepreneurship
in Britain
by Charles Leadbeater and Kate Oakley
Pub: Demos, 2001, ISBN 1 84180 045 7 £9.95
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
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Art Matters - Reflecting on Culture
by John Tusa
Pub Methuen 2000 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.
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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
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.
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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.
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 out of print
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.
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
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Understanding the World We Live
In
Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention
since the 1980s
By Chin-tao Wu
Pub by Verso 2002 ISBN 1859844723
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 0582423635
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
013776121X
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 Sold Here at SAMs
£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, buy here at SAMs
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] Buy from SAMs Books
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
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 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
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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.
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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
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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.
Click here to buy from the publisher
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 Whilst SAMs stocks last
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 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 Out of Stock
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 ISBN 0 00 686150 4 Also sold
at SAMs
Neither a dictionary or a glossary, but a fascinating
collection of words showing the evolution of their meaning.
How they have been formed, altered, redefined, influenced,
modified, confused and reinforced through the historical
contexts in which they were applied, ending with their
current meaning and significance. Entries include art,
bureaucracy, career, common, community, culture, management,
popular, progressive, and work.
The Tipping Point: How little things
can make a big difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
Pub: Little, Brown & Co 2000 ISBN: 0-316-648523
Review
The Search for Meaning:
The London International Festival of Theatre Lecture
by Charles Handy
Pub: Lemos Crane 1996 £8.99 ISBN 1898001227
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.
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
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