Overview
- Provides new insight into what happens when aesthetics meet politics
- Describes how the agency of arts and music is put to work within cultural policy
- Presents important case studies from the Nordic model of cultural policy to an international audience
Part of the book series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research (NDCPR)
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Through comparative and integrated case studies, this book demonstrates how aesthetics becomes politics in cultural policy. Contributors from Norway, Sweden and the UK analyse exactly what happens when art is considered relevant for societal development, at both a practical and theoretical level. Cultural policy is seen here as a mechanism for translating values, that through organized and practical aesthetical judgement lend different forms of agency to the arts. What happens when aesthetical value is reinterpreted as political value? What kinds of negotiations take place at a cultural policy ground level when values are translated and reinterpreted? By addressing these questions, the editors present an original collection that effectively centralises and investigates the role of aesthetics in cultural policy research.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ole Marius Hylland is Senior Researcher at the Telemark Research Institute in Bø, Norway.
Erling Bjurström is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Research at Linköping University, Sweden.
Erling Bjurström is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Research at Linköping University, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aesthetics and Politics
Book Subtitle: A Nordic Perspective on How Cultural Policy Negotiates the Agency of Music and Arts
Editors: Ole Marius Hylland, Erling Bjurström
Series Title: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77854-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77853-2Published: 10 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08556-8Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77854-9Published: 23 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-924X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 210
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Policy and Politics, Fine Arts, Cultural Theory