Overview
- Locates book towns as places that simultaneously preserve past technologies while actively participating in contemporary global communications
- Identifies book shops in book towns as ‘third places’ where outsiders can make connections and feel like insiders, leading to meaningful experiences
- Demonstrates integrated and holistic ways of approaching rural and regional cultural development
Part of the book series: Sociology of the Arts (SOA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Regenerating Regional Culture assesses why, at a time when the book industry is experiencing a profound transformation, book towns are proliferating in Europe and across the globe. It acknowledges the role of the book as a catalyst for this significant cultural activity and development. The book is shown to be a unique and pivotal item of cultural consumption, a remarkable artefact and, more than ever before, a springboard for contemporary cultural debate. This work investigates how the reanimation of these ‘down-on-their-luck’ towns is attracting, through a combination of nostalgia, history and cultural heritage, a growing middle class cohort who seek both intellectual stimulation and opportunities for serious leisure and wellbeing.
This book will prove to be a useful resource for understanding the impacts of book towns on art, culture and society while also offering insightful research for those involved in existing or future development of book towns and other community cultural projects.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jane Frank is Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia with research interests in the fields of cultural studies, cultural sociology, and book and print culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regenerating Regional Culture
Book Subtitle: A Study of the International Book Town Movement
Authors: Jane Frank
Series Title: Sociology of the Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65036-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65035-7Published: 21 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87932-1Published: 05 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65036-4Published: 28 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2569-1414
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1406
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 285
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Urban Studies/Sociology, Cultural Management, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, History of the Book