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Persistent Creativity

Making the Case for Art, Culture and the Creative Industries

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Authors:
  1. Peter Campbell

    1. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

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  • 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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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: ‘Persistent Creativity’?

    • Peter Campbell
    Pages 1-7

  3. Presages of Persistent Creativity

    • Peter Campbell
    Pages 9-38

  4. The Creativity Agenda(s)

    • Peter Campbell
    Pages 39-84

  5. Making the Case for Art and Culture: Persistent Challenges

    • Peter Campbell
    Pages 85-126

  6. The Persistent Case for the Creative Industries

    • Peter Campbell
    Pages 127-182

  7. Liverpool: A Case Study in Persistent Creativity

    • Peter Campbell
    Pages 183-233

  8. Clarifying the Creativity Agenda: More Persistent Challenges

    • Peter Campbell
    Pages 235-273

  9. Epilogue: Ever Decreasing Circles?

    • Peter Campbell
    Pages 275-284

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 285-290
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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.



Reviews

“A book highlighting the positive benefits of creativity that the sector could use for advocacy Purposes. … This book provides a fascinating context for contemporary cultural and creative policy, and the topics covered are incredibly well researched. It is both challenging and inspirational … .” (Andrew Garrad, ArtsProfessional, artsprofessional.co.uk, May 15, 2019)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Peter Campbell

About the author

Peter Campbell is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Liverpool, UK. 

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

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