Culture, economy and politics : the case of New Labour / David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds, UK, Kate Oakley, University of Leeds, UK, David Lee, University of Leeds, UK, Melissa Nisbett, King's College London, UK
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-228) and index
Machine generated contents note: 1. Culture, Politics and Equality: The Challenge for Social Democracy -- 1.1. What we are trying to do in this book -- 1.2. Cultural policy as a distinct form of public policy -- 1.3. Politics, power and democracy -- 1.4. Social democratic politics and the British Labour Party -- 1.5. Social democratic cultural policy -- 1.6. New Labour and the ̀Third Way': Economics, equality and governance -- 1.7. Assessments of New Labour, culture and the arts -- 1.8. Outline of the book and research questions -- 2. New Labour, Culture and Creativity -- 2.1. New Labour's cultural policies introduced: Blair's retrospect -- 2.2. Cultural policy: The key policy groups and their interests -- 2.3. New Labour's cultural policies: Formation, early character and the creative industries concept -- 2.4. Intellectual roots of New Labour's cultural policies -- 2.5. Creativity -- 2.6. New Labour's early days: Creative industries mapping and not much else?
Note continued: 2.7. Four aims: Access, excellence, education and creative industries -- 2.8. Early criticisms, a surge in funding, and strings attached -- 3. The Arts: Access, Excellence and Instrumentalism -- 3.1.A golden age for the arts? -- 3.2. Funding and the lottery -- 3.3. Flagship projects and other initiatives -- 3.4. Sponsorship and philanthropy -- 3.5. An access success? Free admission to museums and galleries -- 3.6. Targets, audit and the New Public Management -- 3.7. The arts backlash, cultural value and the ìnstrumentalism' debate -- 3.8. The return to excellence -- 3.9. Assessing New Labour's arts policies -- 4. What Was Creative Industries Policy? Film, Copyright and the Shift to Creative Economy -- 4.1. Creative industries: More than a policy vacuum? -- 4.2. New Labour's film policy -- 4.3.̀Creative economy' and ̀Creative Britain' (revisited) -- 4.4. Copyright policy and debates -- 5. Cultural Policy and the Regions -- 5.1.A case of policy attachment
Note continued: 5.2. Two contexts: Regional arts and cultural industries regeneration -- 5.3. New Labour's Third Way regionalism: The Regional Development Agencies take up the creative industries idea -- 5.4. The regions and creative industries: Early autonomy and achievements -- 5.5. The limitations of clustering -- 5.6. Other problems in New Labour's regional creative industries policy -- 5.7. The arts and regeneration in the regions -- 5.8. New Labour's regional cultural policies assessed -- 6. Policy Innovation: Nesta and Creative Partnerships -- 6.1.̀Projects for change' -- 6.2. Nesta as talent agency -- 6.3. Creative Partnerships -- 6.4. Surviving beyond New Labour -- 7. Heritage -- 7.1. Heritage in the UK -- 7.2. New Labour's modernisation of heritage? -- 7.3. Social inclusion and the widening of audiences -- 7.4. Government funding and support for the heritage sector -- 7.5. Assessing heritage under New Labour
Note continued: 8. How Did New Labour Do on Arts and Culture? And What Happened Next? -- 8.1. The balance sheet -- 8.2. The Coalition, cuts and creative economy -- 8.3. Final words: Cultural policy and social justice
It has been claimed that there was a 'golden age' in the UK for the arts and culture from 1997 to 2010, under the leadership of the New Labour government
