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The Evolving Nature of Cultural Policy

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This chapter provides an overview and assessment of cultural policy and its changing nature in recent decades. This chapter also provides an account of the current trends in cultural policy discourse, outlining the field’s major developments, themes, and debates. The purpose of this chapter is to provide readers with a general overview of the field of cultural policy studies—where it has been and where it is going—as a means of familiarizing them with the field’s key concepts and ideas, including cultural democracy, the democratization of culture, and the instrumentalization of culture. This chapter also introduces the concepts of the cultural industries, identity, nationalism, and national identity.

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Beauregard, D. (2018). The Evolving Nature of Cultural Policy. In: Cultural Policy and Industries of Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73624-2_2

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