Research Catalog

Title

Making New Zealand's pop renaissance : state, markets, musicians / Michael Scott.

Author

Scott, Michael, 1971-

Publication

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

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Description

xii, 185 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance. Domestic artists' sales, airplay and concert attendance have all grown dramatically while new avenues for 'kiwi' pop exports emerged. Concurrent with these trends was a new collective sentiment that embraced and celebrated domestic musicians. In New Zealand's Pop Renaissance, Michael Scott argues that this revival arose from state policies and shows how the state built market opportunities for popular musicians through public-private partnerships and organisational affinity with existing music industry institutions. New Zealand offers an instructive case for the ways in which 'after neo-liberal' states steer and co-ordinate popular culture into market exchange by incentivising cultural production. Scott highlights how these music policies were intended to address various economic and social problems. Arriving with the creative industries' discourse and policy making, politicians claimed these expanded popular music supports would facilitate sustainable employment and a sense of national identity. Yet popular music as economic and social policy presents a paradox: the music industry generates commercial failure and thus requires a large unattached pool of potential talent. Considering this feature, Scott analyses how state programs induced an informal economy of proto-pop production aimed at accessing competitive state funding while simultaneously encouraging musicians to adopt entrepreneurial subjectivities. In doing so he argues New Zealand's music policies are a form of social policy that unintentionally deploy hierarchical structures to foster social inclusion amongst growing numbers of creative workers"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Uniform Title

Ashgate popular and folk music series.

Subject

• Popular music > Political aspects > New Zealand
• Popular music > Political aspects
• Musikleben
• Musikmarkt
• Musikpolitik
• Popmusik
• New Zealand
• Neuseeland

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-181) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

New Zealand's Pop Renaissance -- The 'After Neo-liberal Promotional State -- The Development of Popular Music Policy -- The State and Popular Music Markets -- Musicians and the State -- Popular Music as Social Policy -- Conclusion : Governing through Popular Culture?

ISBN

• 9781409443353 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1409443353 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1409443361 (ebook)
• 9781409443360 (ebook)
• 1472406036 (epub)
• 9781472406033 (epub)
• 9781409443360 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472406033 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013011287

OCLC

• 833381320
• SCSB-10461074

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library