The Labour Party and the Arts

A History

The Labour Party and the Arts
Bianchini Franco
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h216 x 138mm
1 Mar 2021 UK
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9781907103803
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Bianchini highlights the tension between Labour' s traditional top-down approach of extending access to the arts, and its more radical, sporadic attempts at ' cultural democracy' , which attempt to engage with popular imagination and culture. In a key chapter on the Greater London Council' s cultural policies from 1981 to 1986, Bianchini shows how they challenged the model of arts policy-making that had been dominant since the establishment of the Arts Council in 1946. Their effects resonated for a long while after Thatcher abolished the authority and are still relevant to contemporary debates. Chapters in the book include discussions of: Labour cinema and propaganda; the establishment of municipal theatres; the Thatcher government' s arts policies and the responses to them by Labour Shadow Arts Ministers; GLC cultural policy as a political strategy and its policy making and arts organising; the experiences of Labour Shadow Arts Ministers until 1992; and the impact of arts policies in a range of UK cities.
Franco Bianchini is Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning at Leeds Metropolitan University. He has written widely on cultural policy and urban planning, including, as co-author (with Jude Bloomfield), Planning for the Intercultural City (2004), and, as co-editor (with Godela Weiss-Sussex), Urban Mindscapes of Europe (2006).
Status: Publication Abandoned or Delayed Indefinitely
ISBN-13: 9781907103803
Published: 1 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Lawrence & Wishart
Publisher: Lawrence and Wishart
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
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