Popular Music and the State in the UK: Culture, Trade or Industry?

by Martin Cloonan

Book Overview

Amidst the rise of the free market and economic globalization, Martin Cloonan examines why politicians and policymakers in the UK have sought to intervene in popular music"a field that has often been held up as the epitome of the free market form. Cloonan traces the development of government attitudes and policies towards popular music from the 1950s to the present, discovering the prominence of two overlapping concerns: public order and the political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138246549
• ISBN13: 9781138246546
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"