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Avatar is a “drama” and Squid Game is a “movie”: a new era of convergence Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Shin Dong Kim, Jimmyn Parc, Kyuchan Kim
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Book Reviews Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Robert Hewison
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Conceptualizing Malaysian creative hubs: traversing normalcy to pandemicity and beyond Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Suet Leng Khoo
Creative hubs have garnered considerable attention as a viable place for creatives to cluster, network and bounce ideas for new cultural, creative and technological innovations. Despite this overtl...
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Transnational cultural networks: soft mechanisms for cultural diversity and frictionless mobility Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Carlotta Scioldo
Transnational networks in the cultural sector have expanded significantly in Europe over the last three decades. Nevertheless, although this phenomenon is fuelled by the EU’s cultural policy and co...
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Model of cultural policy and the governance and management of cultural institutions: comparative analysis of three European opera houses Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Joaquim Rius-Ulldemolins, Arturo Rubio-Aróstegui, Maria Patricio
Comparative research on cultural policies has advanced in recent decades in specifying the differences between cultural management models. However, less attention has been paid to how ways of manag...
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Beyond the “substitution effect”: the impact of digital experience quality on future cultural participation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Adrian Leguina, Kadja Manninen, Richard Misek
The “pivot” to digital that many arts and culture organisations faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, revealed a complex nexus of effects that includes significant accessibility improvements (for exa...
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Correction Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-12-18
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The four worlds of creative employees: the role of education level and job-education match Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Anna Demianova, Mikhail Gershman, Evgeniy Kutsenko, Evgeniya Polyakova, Valeriya Vlasova
Creative industries have been perceived by policymakers as a promising driver of socio-economic development and a sector of talent concentration in many countries. However, studies of creative empl...
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Cultural mapping in smart sustainable cities: the Kashiwanoha Monogatari Project Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Kevin Macarius Florentin, Motoharu Onuki, Miguel Esteban
In response to criticism, greenfield smart and sustainable city developers have paid increasing attention to their social impact by prioritizing placemaking and citizen involvement in their plannin...
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Avant-garde or democracy? Transformations and Dilemmas of the U.S. public art programme in the 1970s Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Nicolas Heimendinger
The “Works of Art in Public Places” programme was established by the National Endowment for the Arts right after its creation in 1965. It first subsidized modernist sculptures from well-known artis...
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Beyond reconciliation, towards regeneration: social circus in Northern Ireland Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Eleanor Lybeck
This article acknowledges for the first time in an academic context the significant role played by social circus in conflict transformation across Northern Ireland and, more specifically, urban reg...
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Cultural analytics in the UK: events data potential for the creative and cultural industries Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Suzanne R. Black, Rosa Filgueira, Lesley McAra, Brendan Miles, Mark Parsons, Melissa Terras
This article investigates the potential for novel research utilising data generated by the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) in the UK, focussing on the long tail of metadata associated with t...
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Making it big in live music: a multilevel analysis of careers in live music Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Rick Everts
Drawing on a dataset following the careers of 214 early-career popular music acts in the Dutch live music industry over a period of eight years, this paper maps trends in the number of live shows e...
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Building mutual rewarding sponsor relationships between museums and corporations Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Ana-María Casado-Molina, Pilar Alarcón-Urbistondo, Cees B. M. van Riel
This paper proposes a theoretical model for the holistic description of the conditions to be met for a mutually beneficial relationship between museums and sponsoring corporations, from the perspec...
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Tech start-up capitalisation in an oligopolistic copyright industry: the case of the contemporary music industry Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Allan Watson, Andrew Leyshon, George Windsor
Over the past 25 years, the music industry has been radically transformed through the entry of venture capital funded digital platforms. This process continues, but whereas previous generations of ...
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Dynamics of cultural policy valuations in contemporary Europe Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Claire Dedieu, Félix Dupin-Meynard, Eszter Gyorgy, Emmanuel Négrier, Gábor Oláh, Gábor Sonkoly
This paper questions the configurations in which contemporary European cultural policies attribute explicit positive values to culture. It begins with a reflection on the meaning of value, before i...
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Deepening precarity – the impact of COVID-19 on freelancers in the UK television industry Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Jon Swords, Jennifer Johns
ABSTRACT This article explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on freelancers in the UK television industry. Precarious careers are a dominant feature of the sector and the result of deregulation in 1990s. Employment and working practices which reproduce precarity lead to exploitation of workers, and discrimination and exclusion of those who do not fit perceived norms. Drawing on in-depth interviews
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The REED typology: understanding market-orientation and instrumental values in cultural policy across Europe Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Victoria D. Alexander, Oliver Peterson Gilbert
ABSTRACT This article develops a typology of cultural policy in 30 European nation-states, based on the centrality of “neoliberal” market-based rationalities in subsidised cultural fields. This Resistant, Emergent, Established, and Dominant (REED) typology is based on two measures of marketisation, market-orientation and instrumental values, which are found in European “cultural policy assemblages”
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Turning post-materialism on its head: self-expression, autonomy and precarity at work in the creative industries Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Petar Marčeta, Wike Been, Maarten Keune
ABSTRACT This article investigates values of work in the creative industries in the Netherlands by researching whether non-material values of work are more important than material values, and how this is impacted by precarity. Two approaches are evaluated: post-materialist theory and critical research on the creative industries. The results of the vignette survey confirm that the relationship between
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Who cares for creative and cultural workers? The role of intermediaries in Europe’s creative economy Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Tamsyn Dent, Roberta Comunian, Jessica Tanghetti
ABSTRACT Who cares for cultural and creative workers (CCWs)? This paper considers the impact of a declined welfare support system across European states on CCWs and investigates the role played by creative intermediaries in providing care for those employed within the sector. Building on both quantitative and qualitative data taken from a range of European creative intermediary organisations, the paper
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Understanding the factors that affected the resilience of performing arts workers during the COVID-19 pandemic Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Marie Nixon, Leon Davis
ABSTRACT Similar to a number of arts and cultural sector industries, the COVID-19 pandemic deeply affected the performing arts sector. Whilst research has focused on the impact on the industry and on freelance workers and performing artists during the lockdowns, this article investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the resilience of permanently employed workers in the performing arts industry
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“It’s been a roller coaster”: insights from performing artists on the COVID-19 pandemic and cultural policy Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Cecilia Dinardi, Ana Wortman, Matías Muñoz Hernández
ABSTRACT Before COVID-19, the cultural sector was already in crisis – suffering from precarious labour conditions, intersectional inequalities and insufficient public funding. During the pandemic, performing artists, particularly the self-employed, were hit hardest due to the difficulties of adapting their work to digital audiences, their fragile and unstable economic situation, and the limited financial
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The UK museum boom: continuity and change 1960–2019 Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Fiona Candlin, Andrea Ballatore, Jamie Larkin, Mark Liebenrood, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Valeri Katerinchuk
ABSTRACT During the late-twentieth century there was a significant increase in the number of museums in the UK. Apart from the polemic heritage debates of the 1980s and 1990s, the boom in museums was not much investigated. Our project “Mapping Museums” collected and analysed data on over 4000 UK museums that were open in the period from 1960 to 2019. Here we present our findings. We show that the number
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Cultivating progressive development in the cultural industries: challenges and support needs identified by the creative workforce in the United Kingdom Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Caitlin Shaughnessy, Rosie Perkins, Neta Spiro, George Waddell, Aaron Williamon
ABSTRACT The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the creative and cultural industries have been closely tracked by researchers, professional bodies, and arts organisations. In the period of recovery that has followed, emphasis has moved towards building a more inclusive and sustainable industry. Yet beyond the headline statistics, accounts of the support needs of creative workers – as identified in
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Correction Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-06-28
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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fayemi shakur (City of Newark, New Jersey): in conversation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 David Andersson
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Mapping innovation in India’s creative industries: an ecosystem framework Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Jennie Jordan, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Graham Hitchen
ABSTRACT This paper reports on an ongoing research study funded by UKRI to map India’s creative industries. Using an ecosystem framework, it has focused on strategy/policy; tangible and intangible infrastructure; funding and investment to understand innovation drivers and barriers across nine sub-sector value chains. The research established there is no one creative industries policy. Responsibility
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Capturing value: researching funded art for reconciliation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Peter Shirlow
ABSTRACT The undertaking of a long-term study of art for reconciliation (AfR) throws up problematics in terms of instrumentalist evaluation, short-term funding, a lack of archiving and insufficient long-term view/memory of the activity. In researching twenty years of funding and practice we argue that the concepts of reconciliation lack conceptual coherence in approach within an environment that resonates
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Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Hannah Griffiths, Katharine Kavanagh, Simon Piening, Beth Prevor, Lizzie Ridley, Serena Slack-Robins
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Unreconciled accounts? Screen and performing arts in post-conflict Northern Ireland Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Des O’Rawe, Mark Phelan
ABSTRACT In any post-conflict society, the work of creating an effective framework for truth and reconciliation is fraught with challenges that those in power will often seek to manage and manipulate. In this article we explore the critical role of the arts within the discourse of political reconciliation in contemporary Northern Ireland. Taking contemporary theatre and screen culture as our case-studies
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Selective memory, funder documentation and peacebuilding: recovering the art of reconciliation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Alexander Coupe, Pauline Hadaway, Sarah Jankowitz
ABSTRACT The decades following the 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement saw an expansion of support for cultural activities aimed at fostering reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Yet in spite of an increase in funder-led processes of audit and evaluation, there exists a significant absence of accessible data recording the development, production and experience of such cultural and artistic practices
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Collecting and classifying data on audience identity: the cultural background of festival audiences Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Katya Johanson, Hilary Glow, Mark Taylor
ABSTRACT This article investigates the issues and tensions involved in collecting data from audiences to describe their diversity. It uses data collected as part of a survey of festival audiences to examine (1) how people choose to describe their identity in an open-text question and (2) how classifying complex responses to questions about ethnic or cultural background has implications for analysis
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Getting louder: music, “feedback loops” and social change in the Tamil transnational music scene Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Jasmine Hornabrook
ABSTRACT This article explores the “feedback loops” that constitute the Tamil transnational music scene. Comprising of musical, social, economic and political networks between South India, Sri Lanka and their diasporas, I consider how new music production loops around to highlight the multiplicity and fluidity of the scene. Having been built on practices of carnatic, devotional, folk, Kollywood music
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Performance, cultural resistance and social justice: India’s creative economies since the COVID-19 pandemic Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Priyanka Basu
ABSTRACT Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global cultural and creative sector has experienced major transformations in the way performances are conceived of, produced, packaged, and sustained. The involuntary shift to the online (and now hybrid) models and platforms of showcasing have compelled artists not just to rethink performance itself but also to address larger global and local
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Queer creative Indian city: queer film festivals, precarious cultural work and community making in Kolkata Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Rohit K. Dasgupta, Kaustav Bakshi
ABSTRACT In this article, we offer a new concept of the “queer creative city”, through a critical examination of how a regional queer Bengali film culture has emerged in Kolkata as a result of the convergence of certain urban policies, queer political organising and cultural activism. We explore two queer film festivals in Kolkata – the Siddharth Gautam Film Festival and Dialogues, both having a very
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Bollywood and slum tours: poverty tourism and the Indian cultural industry Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Clelia Clini, Deimantas Valančiūnas
ABSTRACT An article published on India Outlook in July 2019 stated that Dharavi, Mumbai’s biggest slum, has now beaten the Taj Mahal as the most popular tourist destination in India, having “received a push by Hollywood and Indian films alike” (2019). Following Hesmondalgh’s observation that cultural industries reflect the inequalities of capitalist societies (2007), we examine precisely the relationship
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Array collective (2021 Turner prize winners): in conversation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Jane Morrow, Emma Campbell, Alessia Cargnelli, Laura O'Connor
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Philippe Blanchard (former Information Director at the International Olympic Committee): in conversation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Beatriz Garcia
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Accountable countability. Digital cultural consumption among young people and the tools used to measure it Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Ole Marius Hylland, Bård Kleppe
ABSTRACT This article is a contribution to a discussion on how surveys of cultural and media consumptions among children and young people can be as accurate and relevant as possible. Digital culture represents challenges for both cultural statistics, cultural research and cultural policy: Cultural policy tools and categories of cultural statistics need to be developed to reflect digital cultural consumption
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In conversation: Kenneth Kwok (Ministry of National Development, Singapore) Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Michelle Loh
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Disruption in times of COVID-19? The hybrid film festival format Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Roderik Smits
ABSTRACT The first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic had unprecedented implications for cultural sectors. With film festivals, music concerts and other cultural events being postponed or even cancelled, there was an urgency to respond to changing circumstances. Cultural events increasingly relied on hybrid or online formats to remain accessible for audiences. Because such formats caused controversy about
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The show must go on: proposals to measure the economic value of Grassroots Music Venues Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Maria Luísa Zarur Guarisa, João Luiz de Figueiredo, Ana Flávia Machado
ABSTRACT The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on private grassroots music venues (GMVs) increased the difficulties in their business model, showing the vulnerability of their economic sustainability. This paper proposes ways to measure the economic value of GMVs in the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil, seeking to highlight the important role of such venues and of public and private support for their
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Unknown pleasures: techniques of taste in the algorithmic recommendation of unfamiliar art music Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Simon Chambers
ABSTRACT Research into cultural tastes has commonly sought to analyze and understand preferences in terms of notions of familiarity. Such approaches are inadequate, however, when it comes to examining our engagement with unfamiliar cultural content. This paper responds to this gap by examining how people respond to algorithmic recommendations of culture through a case study of unfamiliar Australian
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Julieta Brodsky (Minister of Culture, Chile): in conversation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Tomás Peters
Published in Cultural Trends (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Mark Katz and Junious “House” Brickhouse (Next Level, USA): in conversation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Jennifer L. Campbell, Jill Schinberg
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Heritage conservation and the limitation of public-private partnerships Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Mahmoud Abdou
ABSTRACT Nowadays, different governments face serious challenges related to the conservation of their heritage assets. Therefore, the necessity emerged to look for other alternatives beyond the traditional ones, where PPP is one of these substitutions. Nevertheless, the implementation of PPP in heritage conservation is still restricted. Thus, this research tries to fill the void in the knowledge gap
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Welcome to the inner circle? Earnings and inequality in the creative industries Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Wike Been, Yosha Wijngaarden, Ellen Loots
ABSTRACT Do women and workers with a migration background earn relatively less in the core creative arts or in commercial creative sectors such as advertising? In this paper, we seek to (1) uncover to what extent workers’ socio-demographic characteristics and the sub-sector of the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in which they are active affect how much they earn, and (2) unravel to what extent
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Co-op mode: the emancipatory potential of freelancer co-operatives in the UK videogames industry following the COVID-19 pandemic Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Jack Morton
ABSTRACT With government-imposed lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one would expect the videogames industry to experience a windfall as locked-down individuals turn to games to fill the time. Despite successful profit margins for game studios, a multitude of issues have affected videogames freelancers, with this paper displaying how the pandemic has not been plain sailing for the industry. Informed
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Russia’s cultural policy abroad as a projection of the “Russian World” Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Tatiana Romashko
ABSTRACT The policy review discusses the recent developments in Russian cultural policy. These developments incorporate Russian culture into its geo-political ambitions. Obviously, the war in Ukraine makes these developments relevant. However, this review piece also seeks to explain the place of cultural policy in the Russian political system and the scope of its geopolitical ambitions.
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Decolonising the cultural policy and management curriculum – reflections from practice Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Ana Gaio, Avril Joffe, Javier J. Hernández-Acosta, Milena Dragićević Šešić
ABSTRACT Decolonising the curriculum is a global imperative that takes different forms and urgency depending on the context. Developments across the globe such as BlackLivesMatter and student responses to the pandemic and online learning have raised new questions about the curriculum – critically questioning higher education institutions’ plans about not only providing access to resources but about
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Esme Ward (Manchester Museum): in conversation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Roaa Ali
Published in Cultural Trends (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Towards a paradigm shift? The potential of participatory arts practices in a context of post-crisis reconstruction Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Hanne Dewinter, Simon Allemeersch, Lieve Bradt
ABSTRACT From a social pedagogical perspective, the COVID-19 pandemic has (re-)raised the question of what constitutes social bonds. In this article, we focus on participatory art, as a practice that in recent decades has been put forward as a (new) pedagogical project in dealing with complex societal issues, especially in urban areas. Drawing on the connection between participatory art and the urban
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Artistic careers and crises. How did the pandemic affect Norwegian artists? Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Per Mangset, Bård Kleppe, Mari Torvik Heian
ABSTRACT In this paper, we ask how the corona pandemic affected a cohort of former art school students. We have compared our findings with other studies of the consequences of the pandemic for Nordic artists. Most of our informants appeared less negatively affected by the pandemic than predicted by previous studies. None of those who responded said that they had left or considered leaving their professions
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France and the restitution of African cultural property: a critical race theory view Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Antonio C. Cuyler, Khamal Patterson
ABSTRACT In 2020, French senators voted to return 27 objects held in the country’s museums to Benin and Senegal. When speaking to the French Press, the French Minister of Culture, said, “the bill is not an act of repentance, but an act of friendship and trust (Selvin).” Without repentance, how can France hope to build friendship and trust with its former African colonies? Although extant literature
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Christos Carras (Senior Consultant, Onassis Stegi): in conversation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Olga Kolokytha
Published in Cultural Trends (Vol. 32, No. 5, 2023)
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James Hickey (European Film Academy): in conversation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Maria O’Brien
Published in Cultural Trends (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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Prof. Thomas Girst (Global Head of Cultural Engagement, BMW Group): in conversation Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Leticia Labaronne
Published in Cultural Trends (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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The DCMS Committee’s inquiry on the economics of music streaming and its implications for artists Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Andrew White
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport committee’s inquiry into the economics of music streaming. The scrutiny of the committee’s oral and written evidence, and final report is placed within the context of the music industry’s significance to UK cultural policy since the late 1990s. The perspectives of the UK’s musicians and song-writers are a focal point of
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A public value typology for public service broadcasting in the UK Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Tom Chivers, Stuart Allan
ABSTRACT Rapid changes in audience habits, media technologies and market dynamics have prompted searching questions about the role and relevance of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the modern digital media landscape. In the UK, where cultural policymaking is increasingly politicised, the normative ideals traditionally associated with PSB are being openly contested. This article evaluates how PSB
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Creative industries’ new entrants as equality, diversity and inclusion change agents? Cultural Trends (IF 2.059) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Anne O’ Brien, Sarah Arnold
ABSTRACT This paper considers how new entrants to the Creative Industries view the challenge of achieving equality, diversity and inclusion in the sector. The research adopts a case study approach based on a snowball sample and interviews with 21 new entrants to media work. All were graduates of the same media degree programme and all were based in Ireland and worked in the audio-visual sector, PR