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Garnham (2005)

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Garnham, N. (2005) From cultural to creative industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy 11(1): 15-29.

Editorial Comment:

Abstract: This article analyses the cultural policy implications in the United Kingdom of a shift in terminology from cultural to creative industries.  It argues that the use of the term “creative industries” can only be understood in the context of information society policy.  It draws its political and ideological power from the prestige and economic importance attached to concepts of innovation, information, information workers and the impact of information and communication technologies drawn from information society theory.  This sustains the unjustified claim of the cultural sector as a key economic growth sector within the global economy and creates a coalition of disparate interests around the extension of intellectual property rights.  In the final analysis, it legitimates a return to an artist-centred, supply side defence of state cultural subsidies that is in contradiction to the other major aim of cultural policy – wider access.

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