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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813478103321

Autore

Cowen Tyler

Titolo

In praise of commercial culture / / Tyler Cowen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 1998

ISBN

0-674-02993-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 278 pages)

Disciplina

700.688

Soggetti

Arts - Marketing

Arts - Economic aspects

Arts and society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Arts in a Market Economy -- 2 The Market for the Written Word -- 3 The Wealthy City as a Center for Western Art -- 4 From Bach to the Beatles: The Developing Market for Music -- 5 Why Cultural Pessimism? -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book seeks to redress the current intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favourable attitude towards the commercialization of culture that we associate with modernity.