基本説明
A richly illustrated study of how economic globalization affects local arts and culture worldwide.
Full Description
This work reveals how economic globalization affects decision-making in cultural matters worldwide, specifically in the field of arts. It looks at the theoretical and practical implications of economic globalization on the creation, production, distribution, promotion and reception of all forms of the arts in all parts of the world. The impact of cultural conglomerates on local institutions and activities is huge. Ownership is now the core issue in a worldwide battle for mass audiences. Joost Smiers proposes radical alternatives to this steady convergence under ever-widening corporate umbrellas, to restore and develop cultural diversity, enrich the public domain and be beneficial to the arts and artists of the Third World. He advocates the abolition of copyright which has become one of the most important commercial products of the 21st century and which he argues no longer protects the interests of the majority of the creative artists. He proposes a new international treaty on Cultural Diversity, to enable countries to reduce the market domination of cultural industries and to formulate their own cultural policies.
Contents
Introduction 1. The arts and the world The arts: an arena of struggle Specific forms of communication A triangle and a high-tech-archipelago 2. The power to decide The effects of sheer size The question of ownership Cultural package, political freight, economic weight Second-tier corporations Production and distribution on a mass scale Visual arts markets: as nervous as the stock market After the magnetic telegraph 3. Doubtful originality The twenty-first century's most valuable commodity Hunt the pirates? Mp3, Napster, freenet... Originality Artists still create A Western concept 4. Local artistic life De-localization A vast domain of cultural production Diversity destroyed in less than a decade Traditional, folk, popular, world... Identities: demarcations of differences Hybridity everywhere, but why? 5. Corporate driven culture Aesthetics and the land of desire Something to tell, something to sell Surrounding the commercial message Violence travels well Influence Arousing desire, awakening memory, creating fantasy The story corporate culture doesn't tell 6. Freedom and protection Squaring the circle Trade: another world war Re-thinking economic globalization A new international treaty on cultural diversity The road away from cultural conglomeration Cultural policies Regional infrastructures for the distribution of films The abolition of copyright The need for respect and new creative dynamics Substantial remuneration for artists Protecting cultural heritage The raid on art All that's fragile needs protection The production of discourse is always controlled The digital domain is not what it seemed to be 7. 'Everything of value is defenceless'
