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Culture is bad for you
eBook - Inequality in the cultural and creative industries
ISBN/EAN: 9781526144171
Umbreit-Nr.: 2244150
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 384 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 14.09.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture.Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries,<i>Culture is bad for you</i> examines the intersections between race, class, and gender in the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural occupations. Exclusion from culture begins at an early age, the authors argue, and despite claims by cultural institutions and businesses to hire talented and hardworking individuals, women, people of colour, and those from working class backgrounds are systematically disbarred.While the inequalities that characterise both workforce and audience remain unaddressed, the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised.
- Kurztext
- The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a creative class in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the workforce and audience for culture.
- Autorenportrait
- Orian Brook is an AHRC Creative and Digital Economy Innovation Leadership Fellow at the University of EdinburghDave OBrien is a Chancellor's Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of EdinburghMark Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the University of Sheffield