1st Edition

Global Culture Media, Arts, Policy, and Globalization

Edited By Diana Crane, Nobuko Kawashima, Ken'ichi Kawasaki Copyright 2002

    Culture no longer has borders. With the advent of internet sites like Sothebys.com and the increasing reality of globalization, culture itself has gone global. This collection focuses on questions involving national identity, indigenous culture, economic growth, free trade, cultural policy, and global tourism. Global Culture looks at all aspects of the arts including: film, art, music, theater, television, and museums. Global Culture fleshes out how current cultural policies are working and forecasts what we can expect the future landscape of global culture to look like.

    Culture and Globalization: Theoretical Models and Emerging Trends, Diana Crane Part I. Cultural Policy and National Cultures: Preserving Tradition and Resisting Media Imperialism Subsidizing the Arts: Government and the Arts in Western Europe and the United States, Stefan Toepler and Annette Zimmer Building National Prestige: Japanese Cultural Policy and the Influence of Western Institutions, Kuniyuki Tomooka, Sachiko Kanno, and Mari Kobayashi A Drama of Change: Cultural Policy and the Performing Arts in Southeast Asia, Jennifer Lindsay Identifying a Policy Hierarchy: Communication Policy, Media Industries, and Globalization, Alison Beale Part II. Regenerating Cultural Resources: Urban and Organizational Strategies Urban Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration: The Special Case of Declining Port Cities-Liverpool, Marseilles, Bilbao, J. Pedro Lorente The Local and the Global in Popular Music: The Brazilian Music Industry, Local Culture, and Public Policies, Luciana Ferreira Moura Mendona Cultural Policy as Marketing Strategy: The Economic Consequences of Cultural Tourism in New York City, Rosanne Martorella Democratization and Institutional Change: A Challenge for Modern Museums, Catherine Ball Part III. Reframing Urban Cultures for Local and Global Consumption Cultural Policy and the City-State: Singapore and the New Asian Renaissance, Kian-Woon Kwok and Kee-Hong Low The Immaterial City: Ferrara, a Case Study of Urban Cultural Policies In Italy, Antonia Trasforini Blackface in Italy: Cultural Power among Nations in the Era Of Globalization, Richard Kaplan Part IV. Reframing Media Cultures for Global Consumption Markets and Meanings: The Global Syndication of Television Programming, Denise Bielby and C. Lee Harrington Globalization of Cultural Production: The Transformation of Children's Animated Television, 1980 to 1995, David Hubka 15. From Western Gaze to Global Gaze: Japanese Cultural Presence In Asia, Koichi Iwabuchi

    Biography

    Diane Crane is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of numerous books, most recently Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing (2000). Nobuko Kawashima is Professor in the Department of Economics at Doshisha University in Kyoto. Kenichi Kawasaki is a Professor of Sociology at Komazawa 0-415-93230-0 Tokyo, Japan.

    "Even skeptics about the uniformity, generality, and novelty of globalization have much to learn from Diana Crane and her collaborators. Global Culture identifies surprising connections among cultural production, consumption, and policy across continents and oceans." -- Viviana Zelizer, author of The Social Meaning of Money
    "Diana Crane clears out the theoretical undergrowth and organizes the field of cultural globalization. Her framework, combined with her colleagues' penetrating studies of non-obvious cases, makes this book of immense value for teaching and research." -- Wendy Griswold, author of Cultures and Societies in a Changing World
    "This book brings globalization back to earth. Its contributors trace some of the key economic and political mechanisms that actually produce and restrain globalization in the media and the arts. Diana Crane's introduction is one of the most useful discussions of the topic available today. A great resource for anyone interested in the changing global cultural landscape!" -- Michle Lamont, author of The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
    "This book brings globalization back to earth. Its contributors trace some of the key economic and political mechanisms that actually produce and restrain globalization in the media and the arts. Diana Crane's introduction is one of the most useful discussions of the topic available today. A great resource for anyone interested in the changing global cultural landscape!" -- Michele Lamont, author of The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration