Popular music and the state in the UK : culture, trade or industry? /

"In an era of the rise of the free market and economic globalization, Martin Cloonan examines why politicians and policymakers in the UK have sought to intervene in popular music - a field that has often been held up as the epitome of the free market form. Cloonan traces the development of gove...

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Main Author: Cloonan, Martin.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Series:Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-157) and index. 
505 0 |a Popular music and politics from the 1950s : a brief guide -- Cultural policy from 1945 to New Labour -- New Labour-new pop? -- Reporting the music industries -- Policy on the ground : the new deal for musicians -- A new lens? Popular music and devolution : the case of Scotland. 
520 1 |a "In an era of the rise of the free market and economic globalization, Martin Cloonan examines why politicians and policymakers in the UK have sought to intervene in popular music - a field that has often been held up as the epitome of the free market form. Cloonan traces the development of government attitudes and policies towards popular music from the 1950s to the present, discovering the prominence of two overlapping concerns: public order and the political economy of music. Since the music industry began to lobby politicians, particularly on the issue of copyright in relation to the internet, an inherent tension has become apparent with economic rationale on one side, and Romantic notions of 'the artist' on the other."--Jacket. 
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