Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance: State, Markets, Musicians

ISBN-13: 9781138261785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 198 str.

Michael Scott

Opis

Michael Scott argues that New Zealand's pop music renaissance of the early 2000s was supported by state policies. He shows how the state built market opportunities for popular musicians through public-private partnerships and organisational affinity with existing music industry institutions. New Zealand offers an instructive case for the ways in which 'after neo-liberal' states steer and co-ordinate popular culture into market exchange by incentivising cultural production.

Recenzje

’The historical marginalization of New Zealand’s local recording industry by the international record companies has usually been framed in terms of the traditional binary between a more interventionist government role in the market place versus the operation of the free market. Scott moves beyond this, providing a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of policies supporting the production and dissemination of domestic popular music, introduced during the Fifth Labour Government (1999-2008) and maintained since. In situating the New Zealand case in terms of a rejection of neo-liberalism and the shift to an enabling state, this study will be of wider interest, making an original and valuable contribution to our understanding of popular music policy.’ Roy Shuker, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand ’Scott’s critical sociological approach provides a range of state-centric and society-centric interpretations that enable a new reading of these state-driven music economy interventions’. www.musictrust.com.au

Spis treści

Contents: New Zealand’s pop renaissance; The ’after neo-liberal promotional state’; The development of popular music policy; The state and popular music markets; Musicians and the state; Popular music as social policy; Conclusion: governing through popular culture?; Appendix; Select bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Michael Scott is a Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He has previously published in Popular Music, Journal of Sociology and Poetics.