Popular music and the state in the UK [electronic resource] : culture, trade, or industry? / Martin Cloonan.

Amidst the rise of the free market and economic globalization, Martin Cloonan examines why politicians and policymakers in the UK have sought to intervene in popular music?a field that has often been held up as the epitome of the free market form. Cloonan traces the development of government attitud...

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Main Author: Cloonan, Martin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Series:Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Popular music and politics from the 1950s : a brief guide
  • Cultural policy from 1945 to New Labour
  • New Labour-new pop?
  • Reporting the music industries
  • Policy on the ground : the new deal for musicians
  • A new lens? Popular music and devolution : the case of Scotland.