Culture in Australia
Policies, Publics and Programs

A 2001 survey of the changing policies and priorities that are evident in a range of contemporary cultural institutions in Australia.

Tony Bennett (Edited by), David Carter (Edited by)

9780521802901, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 September 2001

380 pages
24.4 x 17 x 2.2 cm, 0.8 kg

'It has the potential to challenge professionals to think about the constructions of Australian culture and its impact on shaping their own lives, both professional and personal, as well as those of students and clients whom they encounter.' Journal of Family Studies

Culture in Australia, published in 2001, offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and practices at the start of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the work of some of Australia's leading cultural analysts, its concerns range broadly across the cultural sector encompassing art and heritage institutions, publishing, broadcasting, tourism, museums, the music industry, film and youth cultures. These are placed in the context of the major national and international forces that are redrawing the cultural landscape in contemporary Australia. Engagingly and accessibly written, Culture in Australia offers a challenging introduction to current debates and dialogues focused on the need to imagine new culture futures for an increasingly diverse and mobile people.

Part I. Policy and Industry Contexts: Introduction
1. Knowing the processes but not the outcomes: Australian cinema faces the millennium Tom O'Regan
2. Globalisation, regionalism and Australianisation in music: lessons from the parallel importing debate David Rowe
3. Reshaping Australian art institutions Terry Smith
4. Tourism: leisure, culture, industry Jennifer Craik
5. Coombs: cultural policies and continuities Tim Rowse
Part II. Australian Culture and its Publics: Introduction
6. The writing public: literature and the commercial spirit David Carter and Kay Ferres
7. Reshaping public institutions: popular culture, the market and the public sphere Graeme Turner
8. Public service broadcasting: multiple publics, values and the popular Gay Hawkins
9. Men, women, class and culture Tony Bennett, Michael Emmison and John Frow
10. Lost horizons: searching for youth culture in the postmodern public sphere Catharine Lumby
11. Gender and the governmentalisation of Australian amateur sport Jim McKay, Geoffrey Lawrence, Toby Miller and David Rowe
Part III. Programs of Cultural Diversity: Introduction
12. Multiculturalism: contested agendas James Jupp
13. 'Race' portraits and vernacular possibilities: pluralism, heritage and cultural institutions Chris Healy
14. Indigenous presences and national narratives in Australian museums Nicholas Thomas
15. Electronic networking: indigenous media and communications in Australia Helen Molnar
16. Regional cultures Robin Trotter.

Subject Areas: Population & demography [JHBD], Social groups [JFS]