The Politics of the Arts in Britain

By: C. Gray

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Hardcover | 1 December 2000 | Edition Number 1

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The organization and management of the arts and public-sector arts organizations in Britain have undergone major changes over the last twenty years. This book analyzes the process and politics of change in the world of the arts and develops an analytical framework for understanding an under-researched area of British political life.

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Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction: the Politics of the Arts	p. 1
Defining the arts	p. 1
Politics and the arts	p. 3
Selling the arts	p. 5
The structure of the book	p. 7
Conclusion	p. 8
The Commodification of the Arts	p. 11
Introduction	p. 11
The changing public sector	p. 12
The commodification process	p. 15
Commodification and the structure of public policy	p. 20
Commodification and the content of public policy	p. 25
Commodification and the policy process	p. 27
The implications of commodification	p. 29
Commodification and the arts	p. 32
Conclusion	p. 33
Managing the Arts: 1945-79	p. 35
Introduction	p. 35
From laissez-faire to welfare state	p. 36
The postwar settlement for the arts	p. 40
The consolidation of the system	p. 47
The pressure for change	p. 51
Conclusion	p. 54
Who Runs the Arts?	p. 55
Introduction	p. 55
Art and culture	p. 56
The organisational structure of the arts in Britain	p. 58
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport	p. 59
The Arts Councils	p. 65
The Regional Arts Boards	p. 67
The British Film Institute	p. 71
Local government	p. 73
The National Lottery	p. 76
National Heritage arts sponsorship	p. 78
Conclusion	p. 79
The Network for Arts Policy in Britain	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
Power in the arts	p. 82
Networks and the arts	p. 84
The arts policy network	p. 90
Values and ideology in the arts network	p. 95
Conclusion	p. 103
The Arts at the Centre	p. 105
Introduction	p. 105
Neo-liberalism, the strong state and the arts	p. 105
Funding the centre	p. 108
Political actors: political choices	p. 111
Organisational change	p. 113
Financial change	p. 116
Managerial change	p. 122
Ideological change	p. 126
A commodified centre?	p. 131
The Regional Politics of the Arts	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
The development of the regional level to 1979	p. 135
From 'A New Relationship' to Wilding: the regions in the 1980s	p. 140
The regions in the 1990s	p. 148
Commodifying the regions?	p. 150
Conclusion	p. 155
Local Government and the Arts	p. 157
Introduction	p. 157
Local politics and the arts	p. 158
The development of local arts initiatives	p. 160
Economics, the arts and local government in the 1980s	p. 163
Local governance and the politics of the local	p. 169
Accounting for change	p. 174
The challenge of the local	p. 178
The European Dimension	p. 181
Introduction	p. 181
'Culture' and the European Union	p. 182
The arts in Europe	p. 187
Conclusions	p. 194
Explaining the Politics of the Arts	p. 197
Introduction	p. 197
The arts in Britain as a policy sector	p. 198
The commodification of the arts?	p. 203
Conclusion	p. 210
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 222
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