03147nam 2200685Ia 450 991045806680332120200520144314.00-674-02993-310.4159/9780674029934(CKB)2560000000051758(StDuBDS)AH23050649(SSID)ssj0000485146(PQKBManifestationID)11294020(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485146(PQKBWorkID)10603719(PQKB)10363563(SSID)ssj0000177704(PQKBManifestationID)12072686(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177704(PQKBWorkID)10216796(PQKB)10554183(MiAaPQ)EBC3300760(Au-PeEL)EBL3300760(CaPaEBR)ebr10331347(OCoLC)923117254(DE-B1597)574649(DE-B1597)9780674029934(EXLCZ)99256000000005175819970829d1998 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrIn praise of commercial culture[electronic resource] /Tyler CowenCambridge, MA Harvard University Press19981 online resource (ix, 278p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-00188-5 0-674-44591-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-265) and index.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 -- IndexThis 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.Does the market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the late 1990's intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favourable attitude towards the commercialization of culture that we associate with modernity. Economist, Martin Tyler Cowen argues that the capitalist market economy is a vital but underappreciated institutional framework for supporting both high and low culture, helping consumers and artists refine their tastes, and paying homage to the past by capturing, reproducing, and disseminating it.ArtsMarketingArtsEconomic aspectsArts and societyElectronic books.ArtsMarketing.ArtsEconomic aspects.Arts and society.700.688Cowen Tyler323813MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458066803321In praise of commercial culture2081318UNINA