Name: Culture is bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries
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Author: Orian Brook; Dave O'brien; Mark Taylor
ISBN: 9781526144164

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Manchester Univ Pr

Author

Orian Brook; Dave O'brien; Mark Taylor

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781526144164

Synopsis "Culture is bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries"

Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture. Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the link between social inequality and who produces, consumes and participates in culture. Exclusion from culture begins at an early age, the authors argue, and despite claims by cultural institutions and businesses to hire talented and hardworking individuals, women, people of colour, and those from working class backgrounds are systematically disbarred. While the inequalities that characterise both workforce and audience remain unaddressed, the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised.