Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs

by Edited by Tony Bennett , David Carter

• ISBN13: 9780521004039
• ISBN10: 0521004039
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the work of some of Australia's leading cultural analysts, its concerns range broadly across the cultural sector encompassing art and heritage institutions, publishing, broadcasting, tourism, museums, the music industry, film and youth cultures. These are placed in the context of the major national and international forces that are redrawing the cultural landscape in contemporary Australia. Engagingly and accessibly written, Culture in Australia offers a challenging introduction to current debates and dialogues focused on the need to imagine new culture futures for an increasingly diverse and mobile people.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Notes on Contributors	viii
List of Acronyms	xii
Introduction	1	(10)
Part 1 Policy and Industry Contexts	11	(124)
`Knowing the Processes But Not the Outcomes': Australian Cinema Faces the Millennium	18	(28)
Tom O'Regan
Globalisation, Regionalisation and Australianisation in Music: Lessons from the Parallel Importing Debate	46	(20)
David Rowe
The Visual Arts: Imploding Infrastructure, Shifting Frames, Uncertain Futures	66	(23)
Terry Smith
Tourism, Culture and National Identity	89	(25)
Jennifer Craik
Commonality and Difference: Themes in the Arts Advocacy of H.C. Coombs	114	(21)
Tim Rowse
Part 2 Australian Culture and its Publics	135	(118)
The Public Life of Literature	140	(21)
David Carter
Kay Ferres
Reshaping Australian Institutions: Popular Culture, the Market and the Public Sphere	161	(15)
Graeme Turner
The ABC and Rhetorics of Choice	176	(17)
Gay Hawkins
Social Class and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia	193	(24)
Tony Bennett
Michael Emmison
John Frow
Generation Panics: Age, Knowledge and Cultural Power in a New Media Era	217	(16)
Catharine Lumby
Gender Equity, Hegemonic Masculinity and the Governmentalisation of Australian Amateur Sport	233	(20)
Jim McKay
Geoffrey Lawrence
Toby Miller
David Rowe
Part 3 Programs of Cultural Diversity	253	(103)
The Institutions of Culture: Multiculturalism	259	(19)
James Jupp
`Race Portraits' and Vernacular Possibilities: Heritage and Culture	278	(21)
Chris Healy
Indigenous Presences and National Narratives in Australasian Museums	299	(14)
Nicholas Thomas
Indigenous Media and Policy Making in Australia	313	(21)
Helen Molnar
Regions, Regionalism and Cultural Development	334	(22)
Robin Trotter
Index	356