This series brings together book-length original research in cultural and creative industries from a range of perspectives. Charting developments in contemporary cultural and creative industries thinking around the world, the series aims to shape the research agenda to reflect the expanding significance of the creative sector in a globalised world.
By Helmut K. Anheier, Darinka Markovic
September 05, 2024
The status of women in the creative and cultural industries remains precarious. This comparative analysis provides insights from seven key economies to help understand progress toward gender equality in culture and the arts and the broader cultural economy. With empirical and policy analysis ...
By Simone Wesner
August 01, 2024
Research into creative and cultural organisations has proliferated, benefitting from insights from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Starting a research journey can be daunting in such a diverse field. This book provides expert insights into research process and practice, with a qualitative ...
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By Melissa Terras, Vikki Jones, Nicola Osborne, Chris Speed
June 30, 2024
The creative industries – the place where art, business, and technology meet in economic activity – have been hugely affected by the relatively recent digitalisation (and often monetisation) of work, home, relationships, and leisure. Such trends were accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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By Enrico Bonadio, Caterina Sganga
June 14, 2024
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have emerged as an important medium for the creation, sale and collection of art, with many major business and fashion houses creating their own NFT projects. This book investigates the eruption of NFT crypto art, and its impact on copyright law. Chapters address topics ...
By Arne Herman
May 27, 2024
Every orchestra in the world oscillates between crisis and survival. This perpetual movement makes innovation, both in organizational form and in artistic product, vital to the sustainability of the symphony orchestra. Based on case study research in Flanders, Amsterdam and London, this book ...
By Marco Ferdinando Martorana, Ilde Rizzo
April 15, 2024
Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries, together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives, and they play an important role in the creative value chain. The Economics of Libraries highlights the economic importance ...
By Karen Patel
April 01, 2024
Craft is resurgent. More people are buying craft; more money is being spent on craft products than ever before. This book centres craft as a creative industry, illuminating the experiences of those working in and around craft, particularly people from marginalised groups. Shining a light on ...
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By Dagmar Abfalter, Rosa Reitsamer
January 29, 2024
This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors ...
By Michael Franklin
January 29, 2024
This book explores the complex, multifaceted and contested subject of risk in the film business. How risk is understood and managed has a substantial impact upon which films are financed, produced and seen. Founded on substantial original research accessing the highest level of industry ...
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By Erika Andersson Cederholm, Katja Lindqvist, Ida de Wit Sandström, Philip Warkander
January 19, 2024
How do creative workers work? This book brings together insights from a range of relevant disciplines to help answer this significant research question. Featuring case studies from the European context, contributors tap into the experiences and practices from creative workers, demonstrating their ...
By Anna Anetta Janowska
December 13, 2023
The recording industry has famously been transformed by technology throughout its entire history. The book presents an analysis of these changes using Porter's five forces model. The author highlights the evolution of buyers' and suppliers' power, the emergence of new competitors, product ...
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By Ole Marius Hylland, Jaka Primorac
November 10, 2023
What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe analyzes and compares different digital cultural policies of Europe. Through case studies of seven European countries (UK, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Norway, and Switzerland) as well as the...