Arts under pressure : promoting cultural diversity in the age of globalization

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    • Smiers, Joost

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Arts under pressure : promoting cultural diversity in the age of globalization

Joost Smiers

Hivos , Zed Books , Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2003

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-260) and index

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内容説明

Arts Under Pressure analyses the relevant forces behind decision making in cultural matters worldwide under the influence of economic globalisation. The book deals with all the arts, in all parts of the world and focuses on the cycle of creation, production, distribution, promotion, reception and influence. It asks: who has the power to decide what reaches audiences, in what quantities, with what contents and surrounded by what kinds of ambiances? Refuting the 'natural' existence of a mass culture, Arts Under Pressure argues that globally dominant artistic creations are produced, distributed and promoted on a mass scale that destroys the diversity any society desperately needs. Smiers argues that countries must take culture out of the grip of the WTO and sign a new International Convention on Cultural Diversity. Smiers concludes with a completely new vision of copyright, advantageous to artists, third world countries and the public domain.

目次

Introduction Part I: The Arts and the World 1. The Arts: an Arena of Struggle 2. Specific Forms of Communication 3. A Triangle and a High-Tech-Archipelago Part II: The Power to Decide 4. The Effects of Sheer Size 5. The Question of Ownership 6. Cultural Package, Political Freight, Economic Weight 7. Second-Tier Corporations 8. Production and Distribution on a Mass Scale 9. Visual Arts Markets: as Nervous as the Stock Market 10. After the Magnetic Telegraph Part III: Doubtful Originality 11. The Twenty-First Century's Most Valuable Commodity 12. Hunt the Pirates? 13. Mp3, Napster, freenet? 14. Originality 15. Artists Still Create 16. A Western Concept Part IV: Local Artistic Life 17. De-Localization 18. A Vast Domain of Cultural Production 19. Diversity Destroyed in Less Than a Decade 20. Traditional, Folk, Popular, World? 21. Identities: Demarcations of Differences 22. Hybridity Everywhere, But Why? Part V: Corporate-Driven Culture 23. Aesthetics and the Land of Desire 24. Something to Tell, Something to Sell 25. Surrounding the Commercial Message 26. Violence Travels Well 27. Influence 28. Arousing Desire, Awakening Memory, Creating Fantasy 29. The Story Corporate Culture Doesn't Tell Part VI: Freedom and Protection 30. Squaring the Circle 31. Trade: Another World War 32. Re-thinking Economic Globalization 33. A New International Treaty on Cultural Diversity 34. The Road Away From Cultural Conglomeration 35. Cultural Policies 36. Regional Infrastructures for the Distribution of Films 37. The Meltdown and Abolition of Copyright 38. Substantial Remuneration for Artists 39. Protecting Cultural Heritage 40. The Raid on Art 41. All That's Fragile Needs Protection 42. The Production of Discourse is Always Controlled 43. The Digital Domain is Not What it Seemed to Be Part VII: 'Everything of Value is Defenceless' 44. References

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