基本説明
A richly illustrated study of how economic globalization affects local arts and culture worldwide.
Full Description
Arts Under Pressure analyses the relevant forces behind decision making in cultural matters worldwide under the influence of economic globalisation.
The book deals with all the arts, in all parts of the world and focuses on the cycle of creation, production, distribution, promotion, reception and influence. It asks: who has the power to decide what reaches audiences, in what quantities, with what contents and surrounded by what kinds of ambiances? Refuting the 'natural' existence of a mass culture, Arts Under Pressure argues that globally dominant artistic creations are produced, distributed and promoted on a mass scale that destroys the diversity any society desperately needs.
Smiers argues that countries must take culture out of the grip of the WTO and sign a new International Convention on Cultural Diversity.
Smiers concludes with a completely new vision of copyright, advantageous to artists, third world countries and the public domain.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Arts and the World
1. The Arts: an Arena of Struggle
2. Specific Forms of Communication
3. A Triangle and a High-Tech-Archipelago
Part II: The Power to Decide
4. The Effects of Sheer Size
5. The Question of Ownership
6. Cultural Package, Political Freight, Economic Weight
7. Second-Tier Corporations
8. Production and Distribution on a Mass Scale
9. Visual Arts Markets: as Nervous as the Stock Market
10. After the Magnetic Telegraph
Part III: Doubtful Originality
11. The Twenty-First Century's Most Valuable Commodity
12. Hunt the Pirates?
13. Mp3, Napster, freenet?
14. Originality
15. Artists Still Create
16. A Western Concept
Part IV: Local Artistic Life
17. De-Localization
18. A Vast Domain of Cultural Production
19. Diversity Destroyed in Less Than a Decade
20. Traditional, Folk, Popular, World?
21. Identities: Demarcations of Differences
22. Hybridity Everywhere, But Why?
Part V: Corporate-Driven Culture
23. Aesthetics and the Land of Desire
24. Something to Tell, Something to Sell
25. Surrounding the Commercial Message
26. Violence Travels Well
27. Influence
28. Arousing Desire, Awakening Memory, Creating Fantasy
29. The Story Corporate Culture Doesn't Tell
Part VI: Freedom and Protection
30. Squaring the Circle
31. Trade: Another World War
32. Re-thinking Economic Globalization
33. A New International Treaty on Cultural Diversity
34. The Road Away From Cultural Conglomeration
35. Cultural Policies
36. Regional Infrastructures for the Distribution of Films
37. The Meltdown and Abolition of Copyright
38. Substantial Remuneration for Artists
39. Protecting Cultural Heritage
40. The Raid on Art
41. All That's Fragile Needs Protection
42. The Production of Discourse is Always Controlled
43. The Digital Domain is Not What it Seemed to Be
Part VII: 'Everything of Value is Defenceless'
44. References
