141 research outputs found
Preface
No full textThis edited volume represents one of the first scholarly research projects through an international collaboration between Japan and Italy to address economic and social values of cultural heritage beyond its inherent—historic, archaeological, or aesthetic—values. It identifies emerging trends, issues, and problems in policy that have shifted its sole focus on preservation onto its utilization for economic and social purposes that are often considered exogenous to the inherent value of culture. The volume adopts an international, inter-disciplinary approach, examines various issues shared by Italy and Japan and provides constructive arguments beyond the conventional one that negatively views preservation vs utlization of cultural heritage as an unsolvable conflict
Tourism and Theatre: Building a New Relationship for a New Cultural Tourism
No full textThe connection between tourism and theatre remains underinvestigated within tourism literature despite its potential to create new cultural offerings, innovative tourism encounters, and employment prospects for both industries. This chapter aims to propose a framework to analyse the relationship between theatre and tourism across three distinct tiers: the destination level, fostering the creation of novel tourism experiences through collaborative efforts with tourism entities, the cultivation of connections with tourists to pinpoint strategies enhancing mutual engagement and cooperation between these sectors. This framework highlights at least two pressing needs: first, to bolster awareness of theatrical practices among those involved in the tourism sector, and second, to emphasise among theatre professionals the role tourism can play in broadening audience outreach and incubating novel cultural initiatives
Asian Cultural Flows:Cultural Policies, Creative Industries, and Media Consumers
No full textThis book investigates economic, political, and cultural conditions that have led to transnational flows of culture in Asia. Coverage also looks at the consequences of an increasingly interconnected Asian regional culture as well as policy makers and cultural industries' response to it. The book features essays written by researchers from different countries in Asia and beyond with diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The volume also contains engaging examples and cases with comparative perspectives. The contributors provide readers with groundedanalysis in the organizational and economic logics of Asian creative industries, national cultural policies that promote or hinder cultural flows, and the media convergence and online consumers' surging demand for Asianized cultural products. Such insights are of crucial importance for a better understanding of the dynamics of transnational cultural flows in contemporary Asia. In addition, the essays aim to “de-westernize” the study of cultural and creative industries, which draws predominantly on cases in the United States and Europe. Thecontributors focus instead on regional dynamics of the development of these industries. The popularity of J-Pop and K-Pop in East and Southeast Asia (and beyond) is now well known, but less is known about how this happened. This volume offers readers theoretical tools that will help them to make better sense of those exciting phenomena and other rising cultural flows within Asia and their relevance to the global cultural economy
‘Why not make films for New York?’ : The interaction between cultural, political and commercial perspectives in Swedish film policy 1963–2013
No full textDuring the last two decades or so, film support, film policy and the public financing of audiovisual production in Scandinavia and particularly Sweden have undergone extensive transformation. In diverse ways, these changes can be seen as responses to globalization, to increased sub-national regional independence as well as to the emerging idea of nurturing ‘creative industries’ taking hold. They may similarly be seen as a result of developments through which the borders of the European nation state have become more permeable. In addition, Scandinavia, as a region, has found itself as a provider of a popular cultural phenomenon with surprising international appeal and unforeseen longevity in the form of ‘Nordic noir’. This has paved the way for mounting co-production within the region. Moreover, it has also meant that production funding from abroad has regularly been secured. At the same time as these developments, however, the longstanding tension between culture, commerce and national film is still very much reflected in ongoing arguments about cultural policy. For instance, suggestions such as that film policy’s foremost aim should be to support and help to establish a national film culture of ‘quality’ – a crucial concept in policy documents ever since the Swedish film reform of 1963 – has been a recurrent point of dispute throughout the years.In the proposed article, it is our intention to trace a trajectory of tensions, contrasts and oppositions between art, economics and commerce, policy and politics as well conflict and cooperation in a geographically marginal part of Europe ever since film support were first introduced in the 1960s. A rationale for going thus far back is that the initial reform apparently planted the first seeds of tension and conflict that is still discernible in the present situation
The Diffusion of Music Via YouTube: Comparing Asian and European Music Video Charts
No full textThis research aims to study what role YouTube – arguably the largest and most popular video sharing website in the world – plays in the globalization of pop music. As a transnational medium, the internet has the potential to diminish the impact of cultural centrality and cultural proximity in explaining cultural flows. We conducted an empirical analysis of YouTube’s music video charts. In particular, we focused on the transnational music flows between Europe and Asia, with special attention paid to the positions of Japan and South Korea. The former is the second largest music market in the world, while the latter is increasingly associated with successfully exporting its local pop music (K-pop) in the digital era. The results show that the internet has closed the gap between cultures from different parts of the world to only a limited extent. At the same time, we found that artists from South Korea had the strongest presence in the South-East Asian charts, with greater cultural centrality than the US and Japan. The implications of these findings are discussed below
Museum mangagement in a time of change : impacts of cultural policy on museums in Britain, 1979-1997
Get PDFThis paper examines some of the major impacts of British cultural policy in the 1980s and
1990s, with particular reference to museum management. The paper identifies three major
themes of cultural policy at national and local level during the period as the needs for (1)
plural funding, (2) customer orientation and (3) management for efficiency and effectiveness,
and examines their impacts on local authority museums.
The paper consists of three major parts and a concluding part as follows:
• the themes of government policy in culture reiterated through the decades, and
environmental changes surrounding the museum sector in the UK (Part 1)
• a case study of museums owned and run by local authorities, which provides empirical
findings on the subject. Three specific areas—income generation, public service
orientation and strategic management—receive attention (Part 2)
• the theoretical analysis of issues in museum management (Part 3).
This report aims to contribute to the following research themes. Primary readership may be
different for each:
• the context and issues in which the UK museum sector has been operating in the last
few decades, as an introduction to the subject for those who are not yet familiar with it,
and also for those who wish to reflect systematically on the changes they have known
by experience (Part 1)
• a case study of management changes in the local authority museum sector, which may
be of interest to those working in the sector, or to cultural policy makers who have a
stake in museums (Part 2)
• a theorisation of museum management, aimed at museum managers and researchers,
and cultural policy makers and researchers, both in the UK and beyond (Part 3)
• a study of museum marketing, its development, state of the art, issues and problems, for
those particularly interested in marketing (Chapters 5, 7 and 9)
• a proposal of research topics in visitor studies for practical use (Chapter 9)
• a study of public service management, for those who wish to compare the experience of
culture to other areas of public policy (Chapters 4, 6, 7 and 11)
Planning for equality? : decentralisation in cultural policy
Get PDFThis paper examines the theoretical and practical issues related to ‘decentralisation’ in
cultural policy, with a particular focus on the British experience. It consists of three major
parts, in which each of the following is developed:
• a conceptual framework for the discussion of ‘decentralisation’ in the context of cultural
policy (Part 1);
• the examination of decentralisation in British cultural policy (Part 2);
• the analysis of the problems which decentralisation in British cultural policy has
experienced (Part 3);
This report aims to provide different readerships with:
• concepts and theories on decentralisation which are applicable to cultural policy of many
nations as well as of Britain, to be used for discussion by officers in cultural policy
making and decision-makers in cultural institutions, and also by researchers and students
of cultural policy (Part 1 & 3);
• a comprehensive documentation of the practical problems and institutional issues in
decentralisation policy implementation which British cultural policy has been
experiencing, which may be of particular relevance to practitioners in Britain (Part 2);
• some of the problems in cultural policy with wider implications for public policy and
administration in Britain, which may be of interest for researchers in politics and public
administration (Part 3)
Governance of Nonprofit Organizations: Missing Chain of Accountability in Nonprofit Corporation Law in Japan and Arguments for Reform in the U.S.
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