Making culture : commercialisation, transnationalism, and the state of "nationing" in contemporary Australia /

"Making Culture provides an in-depth discussion of Australia's relationship between the building of national cultural identity - or 'nationing' - and the country's cultural production and consumption. With the 1994 national cultural policy Creative Nation as a starting point...

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Group Author: Rowe, David, 1954; Turner, Graeme; Waterton, Emma
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "Making Culture provides an in-depth discussion of Australia's relationship between the building of national cultural identity - or 'nationing' - and the country's cultural production and consumption. With the 1994 national cultural policy Creative Nation as a starting point for many of the essays included in this collection, the book investigates transformations within Australia's various cultural fields, exploring the implications of nationing and the gradual movement away from it. Underlying these analyses are the key questions and contradictions confronting any modern nation-state that s
Carrier Form: xi, 171 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781138094123
1138094129
Index Number: DU107
CLC: G161.10
Call Number: G161.10/M235
Contents: Making culture / David Rowe, Graeme Turner and Emma Waterton -- The literary field : the book trade and the arts ecology : transnationalism and digitization in the Australian literary field / David Carter and Michelle Kelly -- The art field : beyond nation, beyond art? The "rules of art" in contemporary Australia / Tony Bennett -- The Australian art field : fairs and markets / Deborah Stevenson -- The music field : "the music nation" : popular music and Australian cultural policy / Shane Homan -- The media field : television : commercialization, the decline of nationing, and the status of th