Popular Music Industries and the State

This volume studies the relationships between government and the popular music industries within 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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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