| Description |
xi, 275 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1 The Arts and the World -- The arts: an arena of struggle [ i Specific forms of -- communication 19 A triangle and a hi-tech archipelago 113 -- 2 The Power to Decide -- The effects of sheer size 122 The question of ownership 128 -- Cultural package, political freight, economic weight 133 -- Second-tier corporations 136 Production and distribution on -- a mass scale 138 Visual arts markets: as nervous as the -- stock market 141 After the magnetic telegraph 149 -- 3 Doubtful Originality -- The twenty-first century's most valuable commodity 159 -- Hunt the pirates? 1 62 MP3, Napster, Freenet 168 -- The concept of originality 170 Artists still create 172 -- A Western concept 173 -- 4 Local Artistic Life -- Delocalization 18i A vast domain of cultural production 188 -- Diversity destroyed in less than a decade I02 Traditional, -- folk, popular, world I 113 Identities: demarcations of -- differences 120 Hybridity everywhere, but why? 125 -- 5 Corporate-driven Culture -- Aesthetics and the land of desire 1 131 Something to tell, -- something to sell 1 I35 Surrounding the commercial -- message 138 Violence travels well 145 Influence I 151 -- Arousing desire, awakening memory, creating fantasy 1I 56 -- The story corporate culture doesn't tell I 163 -- 6 Freedom and Protection -- Squaring the circle I i68- Trade: another world war 1 I70 -- Rethinking economic globalization 1 77 A new international treaty on -- cultural diversity 1I84 The road away from cultural conglomeration I I89 -- Cultural policies I I98 Regional infrastructures for the distribution of -- films 1 205 The meltdown and abolition of copyright 1207 The need -- for respect and new creative dynamics 1209 Substantial -- remuneration for artists 1213 Protecting cultural heritage 216 -- The raid on art 1222 All that's fragile needs protection [ 224 -- The production of discourse is always controlled 1228 -- The digital domain is not what it seemed to be 1233 -- 7 Everything of Value is Defenceless |
| Analysis |
Arts |
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Arts policy |
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Globalisation |
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Multiculturalism |
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Cultural identity |
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Copyright |
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Mass media |
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Overseas item |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Multiculturalism.
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Art and society.
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Arts and society.
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Arts and globalization.
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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Politics and culture.
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Culture diffusion.
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| LC no. |
2004297789 |
| ISBN |
1842772635 paperback |
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1842772627 hardback |
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