The purpose of this study is to examine the cultural policies of the New Labour government led by Tony Blair. This is achieved by looking at the study All Our Futures, presented in 1999, and the speech by Tony Blair in 2007 at the Tate Museum in London. The study also uses Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimers term “cultural industries”, John Fiskes “social reader” and the development of humanistic psychology to contextulize those policies, along with perspectives on the welfare state after World War II and the development of what is called New Public Management. As a last tool it uses the rationales Dorte Skot-Hansen used to analyze the development of nordic cultural policies, along with the view of art as “l’art pour l’art”, art for its own sake. The conclusion is that the New Labour government made cultural policies for the sake of social development and economic growth, not for the sake of art.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-80196 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Sindmark Hörnfeldt, David |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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