Uneasy alliances: popular music and cultural policy in the ‘music city’

Catherine Louise Strong, Shane Robert Homan, Seamus Patrick O'Hanlon, John Anthony Tebbutt

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Abstract

Administrators and policy makers in a number of cities worldwide are increasingly seeking to utilise local music to promote their cities’ cultures and increase tourism and trade. As the most sophisticated configuration of human existence, the city enjoys obvious advantages, primarily density. Particularly since the 1700s, the experience of city life has been layered with governmental, social and corporate developments that attest to modernity, incorporating an increasingly global interdependence in finance, trade, transport, communication and other systems of the ‘modern’ city. As with many of the international cities that have sought to leverage their cultural and musical assets for economic advantage, in Melbourne the turn to culture as economic ‘saviour’ was a product of crisis rather than a grassroots evolutionary movement. One important way in which music comes to be seen as central to the identity of a place is through the way it can create a connection to the past.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy
EditorsVictoria Durrer, Toby Miller, Dave O'Brien
Place of PublicationAbingdon Oxon UK
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter30
Pages468-481
Number of pages14
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781315718408
ISBN (Print)9781138857827
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Publication series

NameRoutledge International Handbooks
PublisherRoutledge

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