Making Culture : Commercialisation, Transnationalism, and the State of 'Nationing' in Contemporary Australia.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figure -- Tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: making culture -- PART 1 The cultural fields -- 1 The book trade and the arts ecology: transnationalism and digitization in the Australian literary field -- 2 Beyond nation, beyond art? The 'rules of art' in contemporary Australia -- 3 The Australian art field: fairs and markets -- 4 The 'music nation': popular music and Australian cultural policy -- 5 Television: commercialization, the decline of 'nationing' and the status of the media field -- 6 A history of heritage policy in Australia: from hope to philanthropy -- 7 The sport field in Australia: the market, the state, the nation and the world beyond in Pierre Bourdieu's favourite game -- PART 2 Across cultural fields -- 8 'Crossing the technical rubicon': marketizing culture and fields of the digital -- 9 Touring nation: the changing meanings of cultural tourism -- 10 Indigeneity, cosmopolitanism and the nation: the project of NITV -- 11 Making multiculture: Australia and the ambivalent politics of diversity -- Afterword: undoing the bonds of nation/rediscovering dead souls -- Index.

The essays in this collection suggest that the commercialisation of the production of national culture, in various ways and to varying degrees, constitutes an important shift in the configuration of the relations between state and economic power and, therefore, is one of the key influences on the progress of change in Australian culture.

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