Popular Music and Cultural Policy

This book examines the role of popular music in city, regional and national cultural policy. Examining music policy in Canada, Britain, the US and Australia, it focuses upon questions of aesthetics, funding and power.
This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Cultural Policy.

Shane Homan is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Martin Cloonan is Professor of Popular Music and Politics at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Jen Cattermole is a Lecturer in the Department of Music at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand.

1. Introduction: popular music and policy 2. Music, markets and manifestos 3. Irrational amusements, theatre law, and moral reformers in nineteenth-century America: implications for later popular music study 4. Steering a review: some reflections on a gig 5. Independent creative subcultures and why they matter 6. 'Lend me your ears': social policy and the hearing body 7. Why get involved? Finding reasons for municipal interventions in the Canadian music industry 8. From Coombs to Crean: popular music and cultural policy in Australia