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Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick
Centre for Cultural Policy Studies Seminar Series
The Cultural Industries and the Creative Industries: Why the Difference Matters
4:30-6:30 pm,
Wednesday, 21st, February
Venue: B2.13/4 (the B rooms are on the Science concourse, in front of the Library)
Speaker: David Hesmondhalgh is a senior lecturer in Sociology and Media Studies with the Open
University. From April 2007, he will join the University of Leeds in the field of Media and Music Industries in the Institute of Communications Studies.For more information on David Hesmondhalgh, go to http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/djhesmonhalgh/info.html What's the difference between 'the cultural industries' and 'the creative industries'? How have they emerged as major concepts as well as significant social and business forces, promoted by central Government ?
In this open seminar, David Hesmondhalgh will present arguments from the forthcoming 2nd edition of his book The Cultural Industries in which he takes issue with the concept of 'creative industries' and offers a critique of the ways in which official discourse has constructed our frameworks of understanding.
Organised by the research students of the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies.
