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Aesthetics and Politics

A Nordic Perspective on How Cultural Policy Negotiates the Agency of Music and Arts

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides new insight into what happens when aesthetics meet politics
  • Describes how the agency of arts and music is put to work within cultural policy
  • Presents important case studies from the Nordic model of cultural policy to an international audience

Part of the book series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research (NDCPR)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. The Relational Politics of Aesthetics: An Introduction

    • Ole Marius Hylland, Erling Bjurström
    Pages 1-23
  3. Music for One and All? Music Education Policy in Norway and England

    • Jane Woddis, Ann Christin E. Nilsen
    Pages 95-135
  4. Aesthetics + Politics =

    • Ole Marius Hylland, Erling Bjurström
    Pages 191-203
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 205-210

About this book

Through comparative and integrated case studies, this book demonstrates how aesthetics becomes politics in cultural policy. Contributors from Norway, Sweden and the UK analyse exactly what happens when art is considered relevant for societal development, at both a practical and theoretical level. Cultural policy is seen here as a mechanism for translating values, that through organized and practical aesthetical judgement lend different forms of agency to the arts. What happens when aesthetical value is reinterpreted as political value? What kinds of negotiations take place at a cultural policy ground level when values are translated and reinterpreted? By addressing these questions, the editors present an original collection that effectively centralises and investigates the role of aesthetics in cultural policy research.





Editors and Affiliations

  • Telemark Research Institute, Bø, Telemark, Norway

    Ole Marius Hylland

  • Linköping University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Erling Bjurström

About the editors

Ole Marius Hylland is Senior Researcher at the Telemark Research Institute in Bø, Norway.



Erling Bjurström is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Research at Linköping University, Sweden.



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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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