Popular Music Industries and the State

Policy Notes

Shane Homan, Martin Cloonan, Jennifer Cattermole

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781135048907
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music & Business

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.

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4. Sites of Popular Music Heritage
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5. Queerness in Heavy Metal Music
   Metal Bent
   Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
6. David Bowie
   Critical Perspectives
   Edited by Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane, and Martin J. Power
7. Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea
   Sounding Out K-Pop
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8. Popular Music Industries and the State
   Policy Notes
   Shane Homan, Martin Cloonan and Jen Cattermole

Popular Music Industries and the State

Policy Notes

Shane Homan, Martin Cloonan and Jen Cattermole

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Homan, Shane.

Popular music industries and the state: policy notes / by Shane Homan, Martin Cloonan, and Jen Cattermole.

pages cm. — (Routledge studies in popular music; 8)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Music and state. 2. Cultural policy. 3. Popular music—Social aspects. I. Cloonan, Martin. II. Cattermole, Jen. III. Title.

ML3916.H67 2015

306.4’842—dc23 2015016892

ISBN: 978-0-415-82451-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-50570-0 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780203505700

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Contents

• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: Popular Music Policy
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 What Is (Popular Music) Policy?
  • 1.3 The Case Study Nations
  • 1.4 Research Design and Methods
  • 1.5 Outline of the Book
• 2 Making Music Policy: International Perspectives, National Solutions
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Scotland
  • 2.3 Australia
  • 2.4 New Zealand
  • 2.5 Conclusion: Governing the National
• 3 Local, National or Global? National Identity and Policy
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Music and Identity
  • 3.3 Australia
  • 3.4 Popular Music and Scottish Identity
  • 3.5 New Zealand
  • 3.6 Conclusion
• 4 Popular Music and the Creative/Cultural City
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Melbourne
  • 4.3 Glasgow
  • 4.4 Wellington
  • 4.5 The Music City: Future Policy Terrain
• 5 Too ‘Popular’: Music as Intellectual Property
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Australia
  • 5.3 New Zealand
  • 5.4 Scotland
  • 5.5 Conclusion: A New Settlement
• 6 Indigenous Music Policy: Australia and New Zealand
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 The R...