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Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries

by Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor

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Published 14th September 2020
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Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture.

Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the intersections between race, class, and gender in the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural occupations. Exclusion from culture begins at an early age, the authors argue, and despite claims by cultural institutions and businesses to hire talented and hardworking individuals, women, people of colour, and those from working-class backgrounds are systematically disbarred.

While the inequalities that characterise both workforce and audience remain unaddressed, the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised.

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Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries
by Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor

ISBN
9781526144164

Publisher
Manchester University Press

Binding
Paperback

Publication date
Sept. 14, 2020

Dimensions
19.8cm x 12.9cm x 2.2cm