Since the 1990s, urban cultural policy in the UK has been bound to the cause of urban regeneration. Much has been written in examination and critique of this relationship, but what happens when the direction of strategic attention is reversed and civic leadership seeks to regenerate culture itself? The city of Glasgow, having made capital of culture over many decades, has moved towards a strategy for the development of literary Glasgow. This thesis documents a search for those factors crucial to that strategy. The research focuses on literary Glasgow as one aspect of the city’s cultural sector; identifies and examines gaps in the relationship between the civic cultural organisation and literary communities; and highlights those elements vital to the formation of a strategy for development of the literary in Glasgow. An extended period of participatory ethnographic research within the Aye Write! book festival and Sunny Govan Community Radio, is supplemented with data from interviews conducted across the literary sector and analysis of organisational documentation. Through these a gap has been identified between the policies and operations of a civic cultural organisation, and the desires of those engaged within the literary community. This gap is caused, in part, by the lack of a mechanism with which to reconcile contrasting narratives about the cultural essence of the city, or to negotiate the variations in definitions of value in relation to cultural engagement. The interdisciplinary approach builds upon insights from existing work within publishing studies, cultural policy, complexity theory and organisational studies to construct an understanding of the dynamics of Glasgow’s literary sector. This reveals the need for a framework in support of a landscape of practice, a desire for the placement of boundary objects to facilitate engagement, and the significance of value in relation to participation in literary activity. This work informs a strategy for literary Glasgow and contributes to conversations on strategies for cultural development in other cities.

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This study examines the relationship, or lack thereof, between cultural policy and development at the local government sphere in South Africa and, ascertains the extent to which the City of Tswane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM), as the focus of the case study, involves culture in its development framework. The research is informed by an observation from internationa best- practices that local government, as a sphere of governance closect to the people, is one of the best platforms on which the centrality of culture in the development matrix of any country is located and upheld. The research was arranged in three sections or phases, namely: exploration, discovery and the consolidation. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil.

Denna fallstudie undersöker utvärderingens praktik inom ett offentligt finansierat scenkonstprojekt. Med en hermeneutisk ingång och abduktiv ansats studeras olika betydelser av begreppet utvärdering inom ramen för det system, som på initiativ av Dramaten&, möjliggjorde scenkonstprojektet Nationalismens Apostlar 2014. Analysen grundar sig på intervjuer och textmaterial. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten är tvärvetenskaplig med betoning på utvärderingsmetodik, kulturpolitisk forskning och Arts Management. Uppsatsens huvudargument är att ett scenkonstverk som Nationalismens Apostlar bäst förstås som ett organisatoriskt resultat av flera aktörer i samverkan. Kommunikationen mellan dessa aktörer blir avgörande för att senare kunna bedöma betydelsen och värdet av det enskilda scenkonstverket. / This case study is an exploration of different understandings of the evaluation process in a publicly funded performing arts project. With a hermeneutics entrance and abductive approach different meanings of evaluation is studied within the system that enabled the project Nationalismens Apostlar at the Swedish National Theatre 2014. The analysis is based on interviews and text material. The theoretical starting point is interdisciplinary with emphasis on Evaluation Methodology, Cultural Politics and Arts Management. The main argument presented in the thesis is that a peforming arts project as Nationalismens Apostlar must be understood as a result of different actors in an organisational context. The communication between these different actors is subsequently vital to define the meaning and value of the final artwork.

Cette thèse explore d’abord les conditions de la disparition des salles de cinéma traditionnelles en Afrique de l’Ouest et spécifiquement au Tchad, en pointant les causes multifactorielles : technologiques, économiques, politiques et financières qui ont conduit à la transformation de ces salles en locaux commerciaux ou en lieux de culte. Elle examine les processus de mise en place de structures particulières au continent africain : centres culturelsrégis par des congrégations, par des ambassades ou par l’Etat tchadien, mais surtout « vidéoclubs» ou « ciné-clubs », établissements informels de diffusion cinématographique omniprésents dans le paysage urbain en Afrique. L’analyse détaillée de ces dispositifs comme entreprises familiales, comme lieux de sociabilité et comme vecteurs d’une forme abâtardie de culture cinématographique est au cœur de cette recherche. Elle a permis d’identifier les logiques économiques de ces acteurs en tant que maillons d’une chaîne qui part des entreprises nigérianes ou camerounaises de reproduction de supports piratés et aboutit au public lui-même.A partir d’entretiens conduits avec un échantillon de spectateurs, nous avons étudié leurs habitudes de fréquentation, leurs comportements, mais aussi l’expression de leurs attachements aux films qui leur sont proposés. Ceci constitue le second axe fort de ce travail,notamment en ce qui concerne le rapport qu’entretiennent ces publics avec le cinéma tchadien et, plus largement, avec la fiction cinématographique. Cette thèse pose enfin les bases d’une réflexion sur le rôle que pourrait jouer l’Etat pour améliorer les conditions de diffusion et de réception du cinéma africain sur le territoire national. / This study explores the conditions surrounding the closure of traditional movie theatres inWest Africa, particularly in Chad. It will look at the multi-facetted causes, such as thetechnological, economic, political and financial reasons which have led to the transformationof these cinemas into shops or places of worship.It examines the process of setting up film-viewing alternatives that seem typical of Africa:cultural centers run by church congregations, embassies or the Chadian government andespecially “video-clubs” or “cine-clubs”, informal establishments of cinema distributionfound throughout the African urban landscape.The detailed analysis of these devices as family businesses, social venues and vectors of abastardized form of cinema culture is at the heart of this research. It allows us to identify theeconomic impact of these players as links in the process that takes a movie from itsreproduction in pirated form by Nigerian or Cameroon companies through to screening beforea Chadian audience.Through interviews conducted within a sample of spectators, we have studied their cinemahabits, behaviour and attachment to the films proposed.The latter is the second main axis of this study, particularly concerning the relationship thatthese audiences maintain with Chadian cinema, and, in a broader context, with cinema fictionitself. This thesis lays the foundations for a reflection on the role that the State could play inimproving the conditions of distribution and reception of African cinema throughout Chad

La musique occupe une place importante dans les pratiques culturelles des Tchadiens et plus particulièrement des habitants de N’Djamena. Elle s’exprime sous des formes variées : festivals, concerts, caravanes de musiciens à travers les grandes artères de la ville et s’inscrit dans des lieux divers : bars, centres culturels, points de vente, espaces publics. Elle est aussi médiatisée par de nombreuses émissions de radio et de télévision. Notre recherche vise à comprendre les modalités et les implications de cette inscription de la musique dans une ville africaine dont l’image a toujours été liée aux affrontements armés dont elle a été le théâtre. Construite principalement à partir des données ethnographiques, cette thèse a donc pour objet de rendre compte de la dynamique de formation d’une scène musicale à N’Djaména. Elle analyse les logiques d’intervention des acteurs publics et privés, ainsi que la portée de leurs actions respectives dans le développement du monde de la musique. En outre, l’étude des différentes formes d’inscription sociale de la musique, notamment les évènements scéniques a permis d’interroger la notion de recomposition de la ville par les activités musicales en termes d’infrastructures mais aussi en termes de pratiques des lieux urbains par le public. L’un des axes majeurs de cette thèse concerne les formes de sociabilité et les phénomènes d’appartenance liés au mode de vie urbain et observés au sein des clubs d’amateurs de musique. Enfin, l’analyse des pratiques musicales et des attachements du public à la musique a permis de mettre en lumière à la fois l’importance de la musique comme vecteur de la cohésion nationale et la constitution de critères de hiérarchisation collectivement partagés qui attestent de l’existence d’une forme spécifique de « légitimité culturelle ». / Music is one of the major components of cultural practices in Chad, especially for the inhabitants of N’Djamena. It assumes a variety of forms : festivals, concerts, musical parades across the main streets of the city, and takes place in a variety of venues: bars, cultural centres, retail outlets, squares and public spaces. It also receives media coverage through many radio and TV programmes.The present research aims to understand the modalities and implications of the impact music leaves on an African town whose image has always been associated with armed conflict.The intention of this thesis, largely based on ethnographical data, is to give an account of the dynamics at work in the emergent musical scene in N’Djamena. It proposes a twofold analysis: Firstly, of the logic behind public and private intervention and secondly, of the scope of their respective actions in the evolution of the field of music.Our examination of the different ways music leaves its mark on society, particularly through live performances, has also led us to question the idea that the town is being restructured by music, not only in terms of specific venues but also in terms of how the general public uses urban places.One of the main axes of the present thesis concerns the emergence of new forms of sociability and new social groups originating in the urban lifestyle, as they can be observed in the music lovers clubs.Lastly, our analysis of the public’s various musical practices and forms of attachment to music has highlighted the importance of the latter as a vector of national cohesion; it has also revealed how shared criteria of hierarchisation have emerged, thus testifying to the construction of a specific form of cultural legitimacy.

Le sujet de cette thèse est la politique culturelle grecque dans l'Europe occidentale ainsi que le développement des efforts sur l'approche et l'intégration dans la famille européenne, du lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale jusqu’à l’adhésion de la Grèce à la CEE. Dès sa fondation, pour l’État néo-hellénique, son passé historique et glorieux constituait le point central de référence. Dans ce cadre, la question qui se pose est celle de savoir quand et pourquoi le leadership politique décida d’exploiter ce passé au niveau politique. La politique culturelle utilise l’histoire et la civilisation d’une nation au profit de la politique. Dans la plupart des cas quant à la Grèce, les ‘messages’ de la politique culturelle ont pour ‘destinataires’ les Européens, phénomène notamment visible pendant la période des négociations d’adhésion. Couvrant l’ensemble de ces tentatives, à partir d’un niveau théorique par un groupe d’intellectuels (par exemple Tsatsos, Canellopoulos) à un niveau pratique par le monde politique (par exemple Caramanlis), l’ampleur de cette période, comprenant plus de trente ans, permet d’examiner et de mettre en valeur l’évolution des relations entre la Grèce et l’Europe ainsi que les initiatives et l’organisation de la politique culturelle de manière globale, dans un contexte européen et international. La politique culturelle extérieure que la Grèce exerça face aux Européens jusqu’en 1979, renvoie aux idées d’identité nationale, au sentiment d’appartenance, voire à l’image approfondie de l’Europe, mais, parallèlement, dans la mesure où elle fait partie de la politique européenne de la Grèce, inextricablement liée à l’histoire de l’intégration européenne. / This thesis discusses Greek cultural policy in Western Europe as well as its place in the country’s effort to participate in European integration from the aftermath of the Second World War until the accession of Greece to the EEC. From its foundation, the neo-Hellenic state used its historic past as a central point of reference. In this context, the question arises as to when and how the political leadership decided to project this past on the level of its political relations with the post-war European institutions. Cultural policy uses the history and civilization of a nation for the benefit of politics. In most cases involving Greece, the 'messages' of its cultural policy were 'addressed' to the Europeans, a phenomenon that is particularly visible during the period of accession negotiations. This was projected both at the intellectual level (for example by people such as Tsatsos, Kanellopoulos) and at the realm of practical politics by the political world (for example Karamanlis). This study, extending to a period longer than thirty years, examines the development of cultural relations between Greece and Europe, the initiatives and organization of Greek cultural policy within a European and international context as well as the role of cultural policy and Greece’s cultural arguments in the effort to achieve accession to the EEC.The foreign cultural policy that Greece exercised towards the Europeans until 1979 refers to national identity, the sentiment of belonging, the cultural connotations of the European project. Thus, to the extent that it is part of Greece's European policy, it is inextricably linked to the history of European integration.

Cette recherche porte sur le processus de constitution de la culture au Chili comme catégorie d’intervention publique entre 1989 et 2008.Ce processus s’amorce dans un contexte historique et socio-politique particulier caractérisé par la fin de la dictature annoncée par le plébiscite de 1988 et confirmée lors des élections démocratiques de 1989. La culture acquiert alors un rôle fondamental dans le développement social et politique du Chili. Son institutionnalisation cherchait en effet à ordonner un domaine d’intervention fragmenté et institutionnellement fragile et qui n’avait jusqu’alors jamais été doté d’une institution supérieure.Cette étude propose ainsi d’envisager le processus d’émergence de la culture comme un problème public pour ensuite analyser son institutionnalisation qui déboucha sur la création,en 2003, du Conseil National de la Culture et des Arts. La compréhension de ce processus et l’étude de la mise en œuvre du CNCA conduisent à mieux identifier les enjeux qui caractérisent et déterminent l’action publique culturelle dans le Chili d’après dictature. Cette recherche s’inscrit ainsi dans les débats posés par l’analyse des politiques publiques et en reprendra les principaux outils théoriques afin de mieux aborder le processus de constitution d’une catégorie d’intervention publique à travers trois axes centraux, les idées, les acteurs et les institutions, qui permettront d’articuler les approches cognitives de politiques publiques aux approches néo-institutionnalistes et d’instrumentation de l’action publique.L’analyse se développe alors autour de deux plans, l’un centré sur l’articulation entre les concepts et les valeurs et le repositionnement et le rôle des acteurs au sein d’un cadre institutionnel particulier. L’autre plan considère plus spécifiquement les enjeux de la mise en œuvre de l’institution culturelle et les tensions propres à ce processus relatives à la construction d’un idéal culturel national, à la récupération et à la recomposition d’espaces de pouvoir et à un cadre institutionnel flou et profondément marqué par les enclaves autoritaires héritées du passé. / This research deals with making culture a Public Intervention Category in Chile, from1989 to 2008.The process began in a particular historical and socio-political context characterized bythe democratic transition heralded by the 1988 plebiscite and consolidated by the 1989elections. At this time culture began to gain a fundamental role in the social and politicaldevelopment in Chile. Previously denied a formal organizational structure, the newinstitution’s cultural interventions were fragmented and fragile.This dissertation analyzes the National Council on Culture and Arts (NCCA) created in2003 and its work in the context of culture emerging as a public matter. In doing this we areable to identify the different issues in cultural policymaking that arose since the end ofauthoritarian rule. This investigation is a contribution to the debates on the analysis of publicpolicy, utilizing its main theoretical tools to dissect the process of establishing a category ofpublic intervention through three central themes: ideas, actors and institutions. Hence, thiswould connect the cognitive approaches of public policy marked by neo-institutionalism andinstrumentalist policymaking focuses.The analysis approaches the issue on two levels. The first one centers on the articulationbetween concepts and values with the realignment of policy actors within a specificinstitutional framework. Secondly, we will focus on the issues that arose in theinstitutionalization of culture, and the tensions involved in this process. We will especiallystress the deadlocks generated by the construction of a national cultural ideal under aninstitutional order characterized by “authoritarian enclaves” inherited from the former rule.

A pesquisa teve como objetivo compreender as motivações que sustentam o patrocínio artístico do Banco do Brasil, a partir da análise dos critérios utilizados na seleção dos projetos e na estruturação da programação do Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB) São Paulo, nas áreas de artes cênicas e artes plásticas, nos anos de 2005 e 2006. Identificou-se que o CCBB situa-se na intersecção dos campos econômico e artístico que, não obstante obedecerem a normatividades muitas vezes antagônicas, estabelecem, na ação de patrocínio, dinâmica de interdependência, que também é permeada por conflitos. Para o mantenedor, as ações de patrocínio se justificam por quatro razões fundamentais: a busca pela melhoria de sua imagem diante de seus públicos de interesse, a necessidade de se afirmar como empresa socialmente responsável, a utilização do patrocínio como instrumento de marketing de relacionamento e a obtenção de benefícios tributários. Essas justificativas se ancoram em universo valorativo próprio do campo econômico, calcado em racionalidade que se sustenta pela busca constante de lucratividade e conquista de mercados. Por outro lado, na qualidade de instituição cultural, o CCBB seleciona os projetos a serem patrocinados e estrutura a sua programação, a partir de juízos próprios do campo artístico (inovação, relevância conceitual e temática, grau de consagração de obras e artistas, dentre outros). Se houvesse a preponderância dos julgamentos econômicos na seleção das obras, a arte patrocinada perderia a sua moeda de troca, já que seu capital simbólico decorre justamente da negação de qualquer constrição externa ao campo artístico. Analisando a programação do CCBB nas áreas pesquisadas, identificamos que o resultado das escolhas é coerente com o principal eixo curatorial da instituição que é a diversidade. Apesar do destaque dado a nomes consagrados, artistas menos conhecidos também são contemplados, ainda que em menor número e com espaços reduzidos. Nas artes cênicas, a preocupação central é com a presença de atores renomados, sendo que sua programação não se qualifica nem como teatro comercial, nem como teatro experimental. Nas artes plásticas, aparece também uma posição dúbia, já que ao tempo em que promove a arte contemporânea, correndo certa dose de riscos em suas escolhas, privilegia, por outro lado, formas de patrocínio menos arriscadas, como as mostras museológicas e coletivas (essas abrangendo outras manifestações que não apenas as contemporâneas). A exposição nos meios de comunicação de massa e a quantidade de público nos eventos patrocinados são os principais fatores considerados na qualificação do patrocínio como bem sucedido. Isso revela características eminentemente narcísicas que envolvem as ações de patrocínio, nas quais a repercussão na mídia garante a amplificação da imagem benevolente e pretensamente desinteressada da empresa, mesmo junto aos públicos não fruidores das artes patrocinadas. A preocupação com a percepção desse público foi decisiva na opção da empresa em retirar uma obra iconoclasta da exposição Erotica, no momento em que a instituição foi confrontada por segmentos da população que julgaram que seus símbolos religiosos haviam sido vilipendiados. / This study aims to explore the reasons behind Banco do Brasils sponsorship of the arts. To this end, an analysis of the criteria used both for selecting theater and visual arts projects and designing Banco do Brasils Cultural Center (CCBB) program of cultural activities between 2005 and 2006 was carried out. It was found out that the CCBB lies at the interface between the economic and artistic fields, which, albeit governed by conflicting normativities, become interdependent when it comes to sponsoring, but not without dispute. Justification for the banks sponsorship activities is fourfold: as an attempt to improve its image with the banks various stakeholders; the need to become publicly known as a socially responsible company; the use of sponsorship as a tool of relationship marketing; and the possibility of earning tax benefits. These reasons stem from a set of values that are typically from the economic field. The rationality behind them is an ongoing search for profit and the conquest of new markets. As a cultural institution, however, the CCBB uses artistic criteria such as innovation, conceptual and thematic relevance, and the reputation of art works and artists to select artistic projects for sponsorship and to design its own program of cultural activities. If economic criteria prevailed, the sponsored art, whose symbolic capital stems precisely from the denial of any external restraint to the artistic field, would lose its role as a medium-ofexchange. By analyzing CCBBs theater and visual arts programs, the choices that were made were found to be consistent with its main curatorial policy, namely, that of promoting diversity. Although highly renowned artists prevail, minor artists are also present but in smaller numbers, and taking less space. As for theater projects, the CCBBs main concern is to ensure that widely acclaimed actors are included in its theatrical program, which can be neither regarded as purely commercial nor experimental theater. In the visual arts, the institutions position is also ambivalent. Although it promotes contemporary art, which includes a fair amount of risk-taking, sponsorship of less risky pieces, such as museum collections (including art from other historical periods) and group shows, prevail. Media exposure and the number of viewers attending sponsored events are perceived as the main indicators of a successful event. Sponsoring therefore can be seen as highly narcissistic: media repercussion ensures that the companys supposedly unbiased benefactor image is widely spread, even among those who do not attend the sponsored events. Concern about the perception of the latter group was critical when the company chose to withdraw an iconoclastic piece from a show called Erotica. The institution had been challenged by members of the public who believed their religious symbols had been profaned.

Guo, Xinxin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-78). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Abstract (Chinese Translation) --- p.iii / Acknowledgments --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.viii / Romanization and Translation --- p.ix / Limitation of this Thesis --- p.x / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Approaching the Dolans and their Music --- p.1 / Pre-existing Research --- p.4 / Methodology and Fieldwork --- p.13 / Chapter 2. --- Becoming an “Intangible Cultural Heritage´ح：Cultural Policies of UNESCO and the Chinese Government --- p.21 / UNESCO and its Convention for the Safeguarding of the ICH --- p.22 / Cultural Policies of the Chinese Government and their Implementation --- p.28 / The Central Government´ةs Call for Preserving the Culture of Ethnic Minorities --- p.31 / Transcribing Dolan Muqam --- p.37 / The Local Government´ةs Implementation of Cultural Policies --- p.42 / The Music Videos of Dolan Muqam --- p.46 / Summary --- p.49 / Chapter 3. --- Ketmen vs. Rawap: Transmission of Dolan Muqam in New Contexts --- p.50 / Performance and Farming: Changes in Life of the Older Generation --- p.51 / Learning Muqam: Career Potentials for the Younger Generations --- p.55 / Dolan Muqam Training Classes in Mekit County --- p.57 / The 13th National Young Singers TV Competition on CCTV --- p.60 / Summary --- p.68 / Chapter 4. --- Conclusion --- p.69 / Political Implications of Safeguarding the ICH --- p.69 / Old Tradition and New Transmission --- p.71 / References Cited --- p.73