Alan Patten
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691159379
- eISBN:
- 9781400850433
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691159379.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, namely to explore and evaluate the differences between culturalist and nonculturalist forms of liberalism. Are the theoretical resources ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, namely to explore and evaluate the differences between culturalist and nonculturalist forms of liberalism. Are the theoretical resources supplied by the standard, nonculturalist interpretation of liberalism adequate on their own for understanding how states ought to treat their cultural minorities? Or do those resources need to be supplemented by the liberal–culturalist idea that certain minority cultural rights are, as such, a requirement of liberal justice? The main claim of the book is that we should prefer the second of these alternatives. It argues that there are basic reasons of principle for thinking that cultural minorities as such are owed specific forms of recognition and accommodation. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, namely to explore and evaluate the differences between culturalist and nonculturalist forms of liberalism. Are the theoretical resources supplied by the standard, nonculturalist interpretation of liberalism adequate on their own for understanding how states ought to treat their cultural minorities? Or do those resources need to be supplemented by the liberal–culturalist idea that certain minority cultural rights are, as such, a requirement of liberal justice? The main claim of the book is that we should prefer the second of these alternatives. It argues that there are basic reasons of principle for thinking that cultural minorities as such are owed specific forms of recognition and accommodation. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Alan Patten
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691159379
- eISBN:
- 9781400850433
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691159379.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter develops an account of the moral foundations of minority cultural rights that revolves around two main claims. The first holds that the liberal state has a responsibility to be neutral ...
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This chapter develops an account of the moral foundations of minority cultural rights that revolves around two main claims. The first holds that the liberal state has a responsibility to be neutral toward the various conceptions of the good that are affirmed by its citizens. The second claims that, in certain domains, the most promising way for the state to discharge its responsibility of neutrality is by extending and protecting specific minority cultural rights. Although various qualifications and provisos are introduced along the way, and the rights that are justified are constrained in certain important respects, the argument will demonstrate why, in some contexts, specific cultural rights are indeed a requirement of liberal justice. The chapter is devoted to the first of the claims, exploring the meaning of neutrality and explaining why it is an important component of liberal justice.Less
This chapter develops an account of the moral foundations of minority cultural rights that revolves around two main claims. The first holds that the liberal state has a responsibility to be neutral toward the various conceptions of the good that are affirmed by its citizens. The second claims that, in certain domains, the most promising way for the state to discharge its responsibility of neutrality is by extending and protecting specific minority cultural rights. Although various qualifications and provisos are introduced along the way, and the rights that are justified are constrained in certain important respects, the argument will demonstrate why, in some contexts, specific cultural rights are indeed a requirement of liberal justice. The chapter is devoted to the first of the claims, exploring the meaning of neutrality and explaining why it is an important component of liberal justice.
Peter Mandler
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263822
- eISBN:
- 9780191734960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263822.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Is it possible to speak of a ‘cultural policy’ of the ‘State’ in this period without falling into anachronism? Patronage of the fine arts had been a traditional (self-selected) responsibility of ...
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Is it possible to speak of a ‘cultural policy’ of the ‘State’ in this period without falling into anachronism? Patronage of the fine arts had been a traditional (self-selected) responsibility of individual nobles and princes. Although sovereign nobles and princes were taking on in this period more explicit responsibilities for police and for more of their people, it is often difficult to distinguish between their activities as individual patrons, their activities as courtly patrons, and their activities as States. This chapters examines what was distinctive about the British State and its cultural policies in the period during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It argues that both the British State and its posture towards culture carried certain features that put them in the Western European mainstream towards the end of the eighteenth century. It also assesses the extent to which Britain was also affected by events in Europe, by which the fine arts were yoked bureaucratically to education and religion in programmes of national integration.Less
Is it possible to speak of a ‘cultural policy’ of the ‘State’ in this period without falling into anachronism? Patronage of the fine arts had been a traditional (self-selected) responsibility of individual nobles and princes. Although sovereign nobles and princes were taking on in this period more explicit responsibilities for police and for more of their people, it is often difficult to distinguish between their activities as individual patrons, their activities as courtly patrons, and their activities as States. This chapters examines what was distinctive about the British State and its cultural policies in the period during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It argues that both the British State and its posture towards culture carried certain features that put them in the Western European mainstream towards the end of the eighteenth century. It also assesses the extent to which Britain was also affected by events in Europe, by which the fine arts were yoked bureaucratically to education and religion in programmes of national integration.
Eric Drott
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520268968
- eISBN:
- 9780520950085
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520268968.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter examines efforts to bring contemporary music to the masses, paying particular attention to how they evolved in tandem with discourses and practices of animation musicale. The narrative ...
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This chapter examines efforts to bring contemporary music to the masses, paying particular attention to how they evolved in tandem with discourses and practices of animation musicale. The narrative traced here unfolds along two separate but crisscrossing paths: those of cultural policy and compositional practice. In both cases, the actors involved, be they policy makers or composers, had to balance social demands with their own professional and political interests. For composers, it was necessary in the wake of May '68 to put an end to contemporary music's identification with social and cultural elites. It was this imperative that motivated a number of endeavors, including Luc Ferrari's efforts to propagate an amateur practice of musique concrète, the children's operas produced by the Atelier lyrique du Rhin, and Georges Aperghis's work in the banlieues of Paris. For policy makers within the center-right governments that governed France until 1981, it was necessary to demonstrate that the state's interventions on behalf of the arts were not simply a matter of shoring up “bourgeois culture” but acted in the interests of the entire French polity. For musical and political actors alike, consensus about the need for cultural democratization masked differences in what this phrase meant and how it was to be realized. Indeed, the project of making artistic practice more accessible raised as many questions as it answered.Less
This chapter examines efforts to bring contemporary music to the masses, paying particular attention to how they evolved in tandem with discourses and practices of animation musicale. The narrative traced here unfolds along two separate but crisscrossing paths: those of cultural policy and compositional practice. In both cases, the actors involved, be they policy makers or composers, had to balance social demands with their own professional and political interests. For composers, it was necessary in the wake of May '68 to put an end to contemporary music's identification with social and cultural elites. It was this imperative that motivated a number of endeavors, including Luc Ferrari's efforts to propagate an amateur practice of musique concrète, the children's operas produced by the Atelier lyrique du Rhin, and Georges Aperghis's work in the banlieues of Paris. For policy makers within the center-right governments that governed France until 1981, it was necessary to demonstrate that the state's interventions on behalf of the arts were not simply a matter of shoring up “bourgeois culture” but acted in the interests of the entire French polity. For musical and political actors alike, consensus about the need for cultural democratization masked differences in what this phrase meant and how it was to be realized. Indeed, the project of making artistic practice more accessible raised as many questions as it answered.
Rachael Craufurd Smith
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199275472
- eISBN:
- 9780191699825
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199275472.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law
The original draft of the European Economic Treaty in 1957 presented only two Articles regarding the possibility of incorporating cultural affairs into matters of Community competence — Article 131 ...
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The original draft of the European Economic Treaty in 1957 presented only two Articles regarding the possibility of incorporating cultural affairs into matters of Community competence — Article 131 EEC, which promotes how ‘cultural development’ may be achieved through Community association with various third countries, and Article 36 EEC, which attempts to protect a wide variety of ‘national treasures’ through imposing restrictions on both exports and imports. Only after thirty-five years was the European Union able to include the development of Member States' cultures in the Community's activities. This led to the addition of Article 151, which is specifically concerned with culture and heritage conservation. This chapter studies how Community institutions dealt with cultural policy issues before the establishment of Article 151. Also, it looks into the reasons for adopting this Article and how this aids in making future cultural policy.Less
The original draft of the European Economic Treaty in 1957 presented only two Articles regarding the possibility of incorporating cultural affairs into matters of Community competence — Article 131 EEC, which promotes how ‘cultural development’ may be achieved through Community association with various third countries, and Article 36 EEC, which attempts to protect a wide variety of ‘national treasures’ through imposing restrictions on both exports and imports. Only after thirty-five years was the European Union able to include the development of Member States' cultures in the Community's activities. This led to the addition of Article 151, which is specifically concerned with culture and heritage conservation. This chapter studies how Community institutions dealt with cultural policy issues before the establishment of Article 151. Also, it looks into the reasons for adopting this Article and how this aids in making future cultural policy.
Robin Okey
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199213917
- eISBN:
- 9780191707490
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199213917.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The ‘solidarity’ István Burián de Rajeczi aimed at for Bosnia had to be threefold: between communities inside Bosnia to work the new representative system, between Bosnia and the Monarchy, and ...
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The ‘solidarity’ István Burián de Rajeczi aimed at for Bosnia had to be threefold: between communities inside Bosnia to work the new representative system, between Bosnia and the Monarchy, and between the Monarchy's Austrian and Hungarian halves. But this chapter discusses the central role of annexation in Burián's idea of solidarity: Bosnia's modernization was bound up with its fuller integration in the Monarchy. It also discusses how the members of the Bosnian Diet criticised the previous authoritarian regime's failure to live up to its principles of cultural policy.Less
The ‘solidarity’ István Burián de Rajeczi aimed at for Bosnia had to be threefold: between communities inside Bosnia to work the new representative system, between Bosnia and the Monarchy, and between the Monarchy's Austrian and Hungarian halves. But this chapter discusses the central role of annexation in Burián's idea of solidarity: Bosnia's modernization was bound up with its fuller integration in the Monarchy. It also discusses how the members of the Bosnian Diet criticised the previous authoritarian regime's failure to live up to its principles of cultural policy.
Uğur Ümit Üngör
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199603602
- eISBN:
- 9780191729263
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603602.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter discusses how the Young Turk and Kemalist regimes used culture and education as vehicles of ‘Turkification’. It analyses how the Turkish government took the lead to launch ambitious ...
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This chapter discusses how the Young Turk and Kemalist regimes used culture and education as vehicles of ‘Turkification’. It analyses how the Turkish government took the lead to launch ambitious projects of nation formation. It explores how the party attempted to penetrate every remote cell in the country using the educational infrastructure of tens of thousands of schools in order to impose Turkish culture in Eastern Turkey. The chapter demonstrates through the example of a boarding school for Kurdish girls that the prime objective was not education but forced assimilation. The chapter also addresses how high levels of coercion during this process produced high levels of popular resistance against government policies.Less
This chapter discusses how the Young Turk and Kemalist regimes used culture and education as vehicles of ‘Turkification’. It analyses how the Turkish government took the lead to launch ambitious projects of nation formation. It explores how the party attempted to penetrate every remote cell in the country using the educational infrastructure of tens of thousands of schools in order to impose Turkish culture in Eastern Turkey. The chapter demonstrates through the example of a boarding school for Kurdish girls that the prime objective was not education but forced assimilation. The chapter also addresses how high levels of coercion during this process produced high levels of popular resistance against government policies.
Morgan James Luker
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226385402
- eISBN:
- 9780226385686
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226385686.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter contrasts the valorization of heritage-making efforts with the equally powerful discourses of cultural diversity, which are now broadly institutionalized within governmental engagements ...
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This chapter contrasts the valorization of heritage-making efforts with the equally powerful discourses of cultural diversity, which are now broadly institutionalized within governmental engagements with culture and the arts. Diversity, in this context, does not refer to any kind of ethnic and/or racial difference but to variety in media content and point of origin. As a key concept in contemporary cultural policymaking efforts, diversity discourses play a crucial role in shaping the form, content, meaning, and circulation of musical sounds and practices, including tango. This chapter focuses on how these discourses have been put into practice, concentrating on the activities of the discográficas (record label) program of the city government of Buenos Aires’s Sub-Secretariat of Cultural Industries. Dedicated to developing the local music industry as both an economic and cultural resource, the discográficas program mobilizes musical diversity as a means of reconfiguring the economic, social, and cultural domains of the city. These policies both extend the reach of state authority into new domains and attempt to account for at least some of the demands of previously silenced groups.Less
This chapter contrasts the valorization of heritage-making efforts with the equally powerful discourses of cultural diversity, which are now broadly institutionalized within governmental engagements with culture and the arts. Diversity, in this context, does not refer to any kind of ethnic and/or racial difference but to variety in media content and point of origin. As a key concept in contemporary cultural policymaking efforts, diversity discourses play a crucial role in shaping the form, content, meaning, and circulation of musical sounds and practices, including tango. This chapter focuses on how these discourses have been put into practice, concentrating on the activities of the discográficas (record label) program of the city government of Buenos Aires’s Sub-Secretariat of Cultural Industries. Dedicated to developing the local music industry as both an economic and cultural resource, the discográficas program mobilizes musical diversity as a means of reconfiguring the economic, social, and cultural domains of the city. These policies both extend the reach of state authority into new domains and attempt to account for at least some of the demands of previously silenced groups.
Robin Okey
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199213917
- eISBN:
- 9780191707490
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199213917.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter reviews the discussion in the preceding chapters, including the ambiguities of the cultural policy implemented during the Austro-Hungarian colonial occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
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This chapter reviews the discussion in the preceding chapters, including the ambiguities of the cultural policy implemented during the Austro-Hungarian colonial occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the benefits of the Austro-Hungarian interconfessional educational policy, and the failure of a Bosnian strategy relatively detached from the Monarchy's internal imbroglios. It also mentions Benjamin von Kállay's pragmatic approach to the tricky problem of naming the mother tongue, a framework for maintaining Muslim loyalty as a vital weapon against Serb and Croat nationalism, and an evocation of the memory of the medieval Bosnian nobility whose Muslim descendants he hoped to win as supporters of the occupation.Less
This chapter reviews the discussion in the preceding chapters, including the ambiguities of the cultural policy implemented during the Austro-Hungarian colonial occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the benefits of the Austro-Hungarian interconfessional educational policy, and the failure of a Bosnian strategy relatively detached from the Monarchy's internal imbroglios. It also mentions Benjamin von Kállay's pragmatic approach to the tricky problem of naming the mother tongue, a framework for maintaining Muslim loyalty as a vital weapon against Serb and Croat nationalism, and an evocation of the memory of the medieval Bosnian nobility whose Muslim descendants he hoped to win as supporters of the occupation.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846312458
- eISBN:
- 9781846316081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846312458.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter focuses on two intellectuals who brought the ideal of cultural democracy in the late 1960s and 1970s: Francis Jeanson and Michel de Certeau. First, it discusses Jeanson's role in the ...
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This chapter focuses on two intellectuals who brought the ideal of cultural democracy in the late 1960s and 1970s: Francis Jeanson and Michel de Certeau. First, it discusses Jeanson's role in the Chalon House of Culture and his contributions in the development and implementation of national cultural policy. It then explores Certeuau's cultural policy thinking and his impact on the cultural policy circles in the 1970s.Less
This chapter focuses on two intellectuals who brought the ideal of cultural democracy in the late 1960s and 1970s: Francis Jeanson and Michel de Certeau. First, it discusses Jeanson's role in the Chalon House of Culture and his contributions in the development and implementation of national cultural policy. It then explores Certeuau's cultural policy thinking and his impact on the cultural policy circles in the 1970s.
W. D. Wilkerson
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604734904
- eISBN:
- 9781621032540
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604734904.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter explores how pre-Katrina cultural policy, when combined with post-Karina environmental (mis)management and disaster recovery policies, has desperately endangered the cultural life of one ...
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This chapter explores how pre-Katrina cultural policy, when combined with post-Karina environmental (mis)management and disaster recovery policies, has desperately endangered the cultural life of one comparatively marginalized parish — Plaquemines Parish. Instead of describing the extent to which Katrina affected all the parishes, this chapter chooses to focus on Plaquemines Parish, the ninety-mile strip of land south of New Orleans where Katrina made landfall. The cultural policy talked about in this chapter specifically refers to the state and federal initiatives put into place to enhance, promote, conserve, preserve, use, and/or financially support the cultural life of a given place. The state cultural policy, as formulated in the Roadmap for change, the Louisiana Rebirth plan, the Bring New Orleans Back Report, and Louisiana: Where Culture Means Business is plagued with problems. While it introduces culture as a way of life, it quickly reframes the idea of culture as a commodity, a business plan, or an economic engine.Less
This chapter explores how pre-Katrina cultural policy, when combined with post-Karina environmental (mis)management and disaster recovery policies, has desperately endangered the cultural life of one comparatively marginalized parish — Plaquemines Parish. Instead of describing the extent to which Katrina affected all the parishes, this chapter chooses to focus on Plaquemines Parish, the ninety-mile strip of land south of New Orleans where Katrina made landfall. The cultural policy talked about in this chapter specifically refers to the state and federal initiatives put into place to enhance, promote, conserve, preserve, use, and/or financially support the cultural life of a given place. The state cultural policy, as formulated in the Roadmap for change, the Louisiana Rebirth plan, the Bring New Orleans Back Report, and Louisiana: Where Culture Means Business is plagued with problems. While it introduces culture as a way of life, it quickly reframes the idea of culture as a commodity, a business plan, or an economic engine.
E.Taylor Atkins
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520266735
- eISBN:
- 9780520947689
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520266735.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. The book focuses on past and present Japanese ...
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This book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. The book focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as it reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. The book challenges the prevailing view that imperial Japan demonstrated contempt for Koreans through suppression of Korean culture. In the book's analysis, the Japanese preoccupation with Koreana provided the empire with a poignant vision of its own past, now lost—including communal living and social solidarity—which then allowed Japanese to grieve for their former selves. At the same time, the specific objects of Japan's gaze—folk theater, dances, shamanism, music, and material heritage—became emblems of national identity in postcolonial Korea.Less
This book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. The book focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as it reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. The book challenges the prevailing view that imperial Japan demonstrated contempt for Koreans through suppression of Korean culture. In the book's analysis, the Japanese preoccupation with Koreana provided the empire with a poignant vision of its own past, now lost—including communal living and social solidarity—which then allowed Japanese to grieve for their former selves. At the same time, the specific objects of Japan's gaze—folk theater, dances, shamanism, music, and material heritage—became emblems of national identity in postcolonial Korea.
Audrey Yue
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139392
- eISBN:
- 9789888180219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139392.003.0013
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The writer begins with the Aware saga, an event that has come to be called, in order to highlight three positions inherent in the mobilization of pragmatism in Singapore. She accounts of sexuality ...
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The writer begins with the Aware saga, an event that has come to be called, in order to highlight three positions inherent in the mobilization of pragmatism in Singapore. She accounts of sexuality and cultural citizenship in Singapore is another Pragmatist dispute. And this paved as the “gateways” for cultural citizenship formed in illiberal societies by the turn to creative industries.Less
The writer begins with the Aware saga, an event that has come to be called, in order to highlight three positions inherent in the mobilization of pragmatism in Singapore. She accounts of sexuality and cultural citizenship in Singapore is another Pragmatist dispute. And this paved as the “gateways” for cultural citizenship formed in illiberal societies by the turn to creative industries.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846312458
- eISBN:
- 9781846316081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846312458.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter focuses on the role of André Malraux and Pierre Bourdieu on the expression and critique of cultural policy. First, it explores Malraux's founding of a cultural policy as head of the ...
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This chapter focuses on the role of André Malraux and Pierre Bourdieu on the expression and critique of cultural policy. First, it explores Malraux's founding of a cultural policy as head of the Ministry of Culture. It then considers the problems encountered by the Houses of Culture in integrating Malraux's task as a minister. Finally, the chapter discusses the formulation and development of a policy critique by Pierre Bourdieu.Less
This chapter focuses on the role of André Malraux and Pierre Bourdieu on the expression and critique of cultural policy. First, it explores Malraux's founding of a cultural policy as head of the Ministry of Culture. It then considers the problems encountered by the Houses of Culture in integrating Malraux's task as a minister. Finally, the chapter discusses the formulation and development of a policy critique by Pierre Bourdieu.
Morgan James Luker
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226385402
- eISBN:
- 9780226385686
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226385686.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter takes the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s 2009 declaration recognizing tango as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity as a ...
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This chapter takes the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s 2009 declaration recognizing tango as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity as a frame for the critical discussion of heritage-making discourses in contemporary Buenos Aires. The discourse and practice of heritage-making frames local cultures as a natural or renewable resource in need of management like any other, providing both legalistic and ethical frameworks for state intervention in newly audible and valuable cultural areas. As such, it could be argued that many if not most aspects of the 2009 tango declaration, and the UNESCO intangible heritage program as a whole, represent nothing more than a further entrenchment of a compulsion towards economic productivity that has become one of the hallmarks of local, national, and international cultural policymaking following the neoliberal turn. At the very least, these features of the program speak to the emergent and multiple values that local cultural differences have begun to take on within new circuits of transnational cultural prestige and economic exchange.Less
This chapter takes the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s 2009 declaration recognizing tango as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity as a frame for the critical discussion of heritage-making discourses in contemporary Buenos Aires. The discourse and practice of heritage-making frames local cultures as a natural or renewable resource in need of management like any other, providing both legalistic and ethical frameworks for state intervention in newly audible and valuable cultural areas. As such, it could be argued that many if not most aspects of the 2009 tango declaration, and the UNESCO intangible heritage program as a whole, represent nothing more than a further entrenchment of a compulsion towards economic productivity that has become one of the hallmarks of local, national, and international cultural policymaking following the neoliberal turn. At the very least, these features of the program speak to the emergent and multiple values that local cultural differences have begun to take on within new circuits of transnational cultural prestige and economic exchange.
Annabelle Littoz-Monnet
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719074356
- eISBN:
- 9781781701478
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719074356.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This book explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector—understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and ...
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This book explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector—understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is a comprehensive account of the Communitarisation process of the cultural policy sector. Before 1992, no legal basis for EU intervention in the field of culture appeared in the Treaties. Member states were, in any case, reluctant to share their competences in a policy sector considered to be an area of national sovereignty. In such circumstances, how was the Communitarisation of the policy sector ever possible? Who were the policy actors that played a role in this process? What were their motives? And why were certain actors more influential than others?Less
This book explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector—understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is a comprehensive account of the Communitarisation process of the cultural policy sector. Before 1992, no legal basis for EU intervention in the field of culture appeared in the Treaties. Member states were, in any case, reluctant to share their competences in a policy sector considered to be an area of national sovereignty. In such circumstances, how was the Communitarisation of the policy sector ever possible? Who were the policy actors that played a role in this process? What were their motives? And why were certain actors more influential than others?
Michael B. Silvers
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042089
- eISBN:
- 9780252050831
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042089.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter dialogues with ideas about the sustainability of musical culture by offering a case study in which robust cultural policy, supporting foothills forró, was implemented by the same leftist ...
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This chapter dialogues with ideas about the sustainability of musical culture by offering a case study in which robust cultural policy, supporting foothills forró, was implemented by the same leftist Workers’ Party government that brought millions of Brazilians out of poverty at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century. The new consumer class amplified the success of electronic forró, a genre often considered a threat to foothills forró. It is this paradox--that the leftist goals of ameliorating poverty and of bolstering a cultural policy that can sustain vibrant music ecologies might sometimes be at odds--I wish to bring to the debate over musical sustainability.Less
This chapter dialogues with ideas about the sustainability of musical culture by offering a case study in which robust cultural policy, supporting foothills forró, was implemented by the same leftist Workers’ Party government that brought millions of Brazilians out of poverty at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century. The new consumer class amplified the success of electronic forró, a genre often considered a threat to foothills forró. It is this paradox--that the leftist goals of ameliorating poverty and of bolstering a cultural policy that can sustain vibrant music ecologies might sometimes be at odds--I wish to bring to the debate over musical sustainability.
Tim Blanning and Hagen Schulze
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263822
- eISBN:
- 9780191734960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263822.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Held in September 2003, the conference on ‘Unity and diversity in European culture, c. 1800’ was a joint initiative on the part of the British Academy and the German Historical Institute London. It ...
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Held in September 2003, the conference on ‘Unity and diversity in European culture, c. 1800’ was a joint initiative on the part of the British Academy and the German Historical Institute London. It tackled a topic of central importance to the historiography of Europe during the period: the transition from the cosmopolitan culture of the Enlightenment to the self-consciously national cultures of the nineteenth century. The nine papers, when presented at the conference, were divided into three sessions in which attendees discussed topics ranging from art and its publics, the idea of a national opera, the invention of German music, political culture, cosmopolitanism, patriotism, nationalism, the cultural policy of the British state in European perspective from 1780 to 1850, the invention of national languages, representations of the past in Irish vernacular literature from 1650 to 1850, the marked decline in the degree and importance of patronage by the churches and the nobility, the decline of international languages in favour of national vernaculars and the significance of the ‘fine arts’ as being conducive to social harmony, economic prosperity and political stability.Less
Held in September 2003, the conference on ‘Unity and diversity in European culture, c. 1800’ was a joint initiative on the part of the British Academy and the German Historical Institute London. It tackled a topic of central importance to the historiography of Europe during the period: the transition from the cosmopolitan culture of the Enlightenment to the self-consciously national cultures of the nineteenth century. The nine papers, when presented at the conference, were divided into three sessions in which attendees discussed topics ranging from art and its publics, the idea of a national opera, the invention of German music, political culture, cosmopolitanism, patriotism, nationalism, the cultural policy of the British state in European perspective from 1780 to 1850, the invention of national languages, representations of the past in Irish vernacular literature from 1650 to 1850, the marked decline in the degree and importance of patronage by the churches and the nobility, the decline of international languages in favour of national vernaculars and the significance of the ‘fine arts’ as being conducive to social harmony, economic prosperity and political stability.
M. B. Hackler
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604734904
- eISBN:
- 9781621032540
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604734904.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter first talks about the devastations that were hurricanes Katrina and Rita, disasters that have struck a chord with the communities that they ravaged. In fact, the events were so ...
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This chapter first talks about the devastations that were hurricanes Katrina and Rita, disasters that have struck a chord with the communities that they ravaged. In fact, the events were so devastating that an overwhelmingly large number of books, articles, reports, and declarations came out, each with their own input on the subject. The contents of each of these books, articles, blogs, and editorials respond to sometimes drastically different visions of highly contested histories. This chapter thus introduces the ideas and events that have led to the study that is focused upon in this book: namely, a discourse of cultural policy with regard to the re-creation, revitalization, or reinvention of the cultural life of the Gulf Coast communities in the aftermath of the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.Less
This chapter first talks about the devastations that were hurricanes Katrina and Rita, disasters that have struck a chord with the communities that they ravaged. In fact, the events were so devastating that an overwhelmingly large number of books, articles, reports, and declarations came out, each with their own input on the subject. The contents of each of these books, articles, blogs, and editorials respond to sometimes drastically different visions of highly contested histories. This chapter thus introduces the ideas and events that have led to the study that is focused upon in this book: namely, a discourse of cultural policy with regard to the re-creation, revitalization, or reinvention of the cultural life of the Gulf Coast communities in the aftermath of the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.
Michael B. Silvers
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042089
- eISBN:
- 9780252050831
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042089.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter looks at the cost of Carnival celebrations in an era of economic austerity due to drought and economic crisis. In 2014, ’15, and ’16, an ongoing drought of historic magnitude led the ...
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This chapter looks at the cost of Carnival celebrations in an era of economic austerity due to drought and economic crisis. In 2014, ’15, and ’16, an ongoing drought of historic magnitude led the Ceará governor to redirect state monies intended for Carnival and other music-related celebrations to more urgent drought-relief efforts. Is music as vital as water? In the context of national economic crisis and massive drought, this chapter suggests that electronic forró’s continued dominance points to the increasing neoliberalization of culture in Brazil in the wake of social successes for the Workers’ Party and a period of optimistic and ambitious cultural policy.Less
This chapter looks at the cost of Carnival celebrations in an era of economic austerity due to drought and economic crisis. In 2014, ’15, and ’16, an ongoing drought of historic magnitude led the Ceará governor to redirect state monies intended for Carnival and other music-related celebrations to more urgent drought-relief efforts. Is music as vital as water? In the context of national economic crisis and massive drought, this chapter suggests that electronic forró’s continued dominance points to the increasing neoliberalization of culture in Brazil in the wake of social successes for the Workers’ Party and a period of optimistic and ambitious cultural policy.
