The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy is the first thorough analysis of how policy frames the behavior of audiences, industries, and governments in the production and consumption of popular music. Covering a range of industrial and national contexts, this collection assesses how music policy has become an important arm of government, and a contentious arena of global debate across areas of cultural trade, intellectual property, and mediacultural content. It brings together a diverse range of researchers to reveal how histories of music policy development continue to inform contemporary policy and industry practice. The Handbook maps individual nation case studies with detailed assessment of music industry sectors. Drawing on international experts, the volume offers insight into global debates about popular music within broader social, economic, and geopolitical contexts.
Edited by:
Prof Shane Homan (Monash University Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501389917
ISBN 10: 1501389912
Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 24 August 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Situating Popular Music Policy Shane Homan, Monash University, Australia Part I: Policy Contexts 2. Distributing Rights and Resources: The Cultural Politics of Popular Music Policy John Street, University of East Anglia, UK 3. The presence and Absence of Policy in the Digital Music Industries Daniel Nordgård, University of Agder, Norway 4. Property or Status? Music and Musicians Under Copyright Thomas Dillon, Barrister, UK Part II: Policy Sectors 5. Conceptualising Popular Music’s Heritage as an Object of Policy: Preservation, Performance and Promotion Paul Long, Monash University, Australia, Zelmarie Cantillon, Western Sydney University, Australia, and Sarah Baker, Griffith University, Australia 6. Popular Music, Policy and Education Gareth Dylan Smith, Boston University, USA, and Zack Moir, Edinburgh Napier University, UK 7. Music Exports Shane Homan, Monash University, Australia 8. Broadcasting and Popular Music Policy Mark Percival, Queen Margaret University, UK 9. Live Music Infrastructure Adam Behr, Newcastle University, UK Part III: National Policy 10. Audible, Visible and Experiential: Reflections on South Korean Popular Music Policy Soojin Kim, Korea National University of Arts, South Korea 11. The Canadian Conundrum: Robust Policies Catching Up with the Times Richard Sutherland, Mount Royal University, Canada 12. The New Great Leap Forward of China: National and Local Music Policy in Chengdu Qian Wang, Yibin University, China 13. Australian Popular Music Policy Sarah Taylor, RMIT University, Australia, and Shane Homan, Monash University, Australia 14. More Than Dots on Maps: Locating Live Venues in the German Music Policy Framework Niklas Blömeke, Paderborn University, Germany; Jan Üblacker, EBZ Business School, University of Applied Science, Bochum, Germany' Johannes Krause, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany; Heiko Rühl, Independent Scholar, Germany; and Katharina Huseljic, Independent Scholar, Germany 15. From National Identity to the Well-Being of Future Generations: Popular Music Within Devolved Welsh Policy-Making Between 1999-2020 Luke Thomas, Independent Scholar, UK, and Paul Carr, University of South Wales, UK Part IV: Contemporary Debates 16. Ticketing: Why Is It a Problem? Mike Waterson, University of Warwick, UK 17. Gender and Popular Music Policy Sam de Boise, Örebro University, Sweden, Maura Edmond, Monash University, Australia, and Catherine Strong, RMIT University, Australia 18. When Music Becomes Datafied: Streaming Services and the Case of Spotify Jonas Anderson Schwarz, Södertörn University, Sweden, and Sofia Johanssson, Sodertorn University, Sweden 19. Music Cities Sarah Taylor, RMIT University, Australia 20. Brexit and the UK Live Music Industry Patrycja Rozbicka, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, Adam Behr, Newcastle University, UK, and Craig Hamilton, Birmingham City University, UK Bibliography Index
Shane Homan is Associate Professor of Media, Film, and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. He is a leading international researcher on the music industries and music policy, including work with various Australian governments. He is the co-author of Popular Music and the State (2015), and co-editor of Popular Music and Cultural Policy (2015), Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now (2008), and Access All Eras (2006).
Reviews for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy is a fascinating deep dive into the efficacy of popular music policy. From the behaviour of audiences, ownership and streaming to Brexit, creative industries and urban regeneration, it offers a brilliant documentation of the factors affecting policy decisions and the impact of those decisions. I highly recommend this book as an important addition to this area of research and an excellent set text for the study of popular music. - Mark Pollard, Professor, Composer, and Head of Interactive Composition, University of Melbourne, Australia Interest at both a practical and theoretical level in popular music policy has grown exponentially over the past decade. In the UK, the impact on the music industry of COVID, Brexit, copyright reform and venue closures are now firmly established within mainstream political discourse. This new Bloomsbury Handbook manages to expertly put many of these contemporary debates in context and provides much needed international evidence to support further strategies that practitioners can deploy in this exciting field of study. - Tom Kiehl, Deputy CEO and Director of Public Affairs at UK Music The fast-moving nature of the contemporary music industries, politics and policy formulation make for an extremely rich but underdeveloped research field. By drawing on a combination of perspectives from around the world, this handbook offers a mixture of history, theorization, typologies and practical examples of policy in action. This means it provides not only the most detailed overview of the field to date, but also sets the agenda for future research. - John Williamson, Lecturer in Music, University of Glasgow, Scotland, co-author of Players' Work Time: A History of the British Musicians' Union, 1893-2013 (2016)
