I distinctly remember one of the first times I went to a contemporary gallery; I can't remember
which one it was. I was 17. I walked in the door and I was made to feel like a piece of shit …

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes?
Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain …

There is currently widespread concern that Britain's cultural and creative industries (CCIs)
are increasingly dominated by the privileged. This stands in stark contrast to dominant policy …

Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour
era, the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, were ceaselessly promoted as a …

How do elites signal their superior social position via the consumption of culture? We
address this question by drawing on 120 years of “recreations” data (N= 71,393) contained …

David Bell and Kate Oakley survey the major debates emerging in cultural policy research,
adopting an approach based on spatial scale to explore cultural policy in cities, nations and …

There is a participative turn in Cultural policy. Nevertheless, far from being coherent and
generalized, it has first to deal with one of the peculiarities of Cultural Policies: the …

The Ecology of Culture Page 1 The Ecology of Culture A Report commissioned by the Arts
and Humanities Research Council’s Cultural Value Project John Holden Visiting Professor …

Explains the key concepts, theories, and studies in the sociology of the arts—the fully
updated new edition of the classic textbook Sociology of the Arts is a comprehensive yet …

In the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015, the role of
culture is limited. We argue that culture's absence is rooted in the longue durée of interplay …