Aesthetics and Politics A Nordic Perspective on How Cultural Policy Negotiates the Agency of Music and Arts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hylland, Ole Marius (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bjurström, Erling (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research
• Subjects: Cultural policy.; Fine arts.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Fine Arts.; Cultural Theory.

Through comparative and integrated case studies, this book demonstrates how aesthetics becomes politics in cultural policy. Contributors from Norway, Sweden and the UK analyse exactly what happens when art is considered relevant for societal development, at both a practical and theoretical level. Cu...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 The relational politics of aesthetics. An introduction
• Chapter 2 Musical nation Bildung. The twin enterprises Concerts Norway and Concerts Sweden
• Chapter 3 Fifty years of aesthetic construction work: The music policy of Arts Council Norway 1965-2015
• Chapter 4 Music for One and All? Music Education Policy in Norway and England
• Chapter 5 The art of foreign policy. Aesthetics' developmental agency in foreign cultural policy
• Chapter 6 Knowledge production as mediator between aesthetics and politics. The role of research in cultural policy
• Chapter 7 Aesthetics + politics =.