Overview
- Analyses creativity in terms of specific policy and methods practices
- Considers the role of festivals and competitions such as the European Capital of Culture
- Offers nuanced, critical appraisal of logics underpinning discourse about creativity and culture
Part of the book series: Sociology of the Arts (SOA)
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About this book
Recent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of ‘creativity’. Future success, we are often assured, will rest on the creativity of our endeavours, often aligned specifically with ‘cultural’ activity. This book considers the emergence and persistence of this pattern, particularly with regards to cultural policy, and examines the methods and evidence deployed to make the case for art, culture and the creative industries. The origins of current practices are considered, as is the gradual accretion of a broad range of meanings around the term ‘creative’, and the implications this has for the success of the wider ‘Creativity Agenda’. The specific experience of the city of Liverpool in adopting and furthering this agenda both in the UK and beyond is considered, as is the persistence of a range of problematic, and often contradictory, assumptions and practices relating to this agenda up to the present day.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Persistent Creativity
Book Subtitle: Making the Case for Art, Culture and the Creative Industries
Authors: Peter Campbell
Series Title: Sociology of the Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03119-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03118-3Published: 18 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03119-0Published: 17 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2569-1414
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1406
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 290
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cultural Policy and Politics, Urban Studies/Sociology