Name: Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance: State, Markets, Musicians
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Author: Michael Scott
ISBN: 9781138261785

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Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance: State, Markets, Musicians

Type

Physical Book

Author

Michael Scott

Publisher

Routledge

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781138261785

Edition No.

Synopsis "Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance: State, Markets, Musicians"

Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance. Domestic artists' sales, airplay and concert attendance have all grown dramatically while new avenues for 'kiwi' pop exports emerged. Concurrent with these trends was a new collective sentiment that embraced and celebrated domestic musicians. In Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance, Michael Scott argues that this revival arose from state policies and shows how the state built market opportunities for popular musicians through public-private partnerships and organizational affinity with existing music industry institutions. New Zealand offers an instructive case for the ways in which 'after neo-liberal' states steer and co-ordinate popular culture into market exchange by incentivizing cultural production. Scott highlights how these music policies were intended to address various economic and social problems. Arriving with the creative industries' discourse and policy making, politicians claimed these expanded popular music supports would facilitate sustainable employment and a sense of national identity. Yet popular music as economic and social policy presents a paradox: the music industry generates commercial failure and thus requires a large unattached pool of potential talent. Considering this feature, Scott analyses how state programs induced an informal economy of proto-pop production aimed at accessing competitive state funding while simultaneously encouraging musicians to adopt entrepreneurial subjectivities. In doing so he argues New Zealand's music policies are a form of social policy that unintentionally deploy hierarchical structures to foster social inclusion amongst growing numbers of creative workers.

Michael Scott

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Famous for his works in the fantasy and mythological genre, Irish author Michael Dillon Scott, known as Michael Scott, was born in Dublin in 1959

His first book, Irish Folk and Fairy Tales, was published in 1983. Since then, he has authored over a hundred works including novels for adults, young adults, and children in various genres such as science fiction, romance, and especially folklore and fantasy. Within the latter category falls his most famous series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. This six-book series begins with The Alchemist, a hit from its release. The series is completed by The Magician, The Sorceress, The Necromancer, The Warlock, and The Enchantress

The Nicholas Flamel books have been featured in several online games, and their film rights are held by Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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