Tony Moore, Mark Gibson, Chris McAuliffe, Maura Edmond

Fringe to Famous (eBook, PDF)

Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fringe to Famous examines exchange between small scenes of cultural production and mainstream institutions and markets.

Drawing on Australian examples in music, streetwear, comedy, screen and digital games, it argues that there has been much greater crossover between the two than is generally recognized.

The book resists a tendency to represent fringe and mainstream as abstract opposites, bringing a focus instead to concrete historical formations. It offers an alternative both to romantic celebrations of a 'pure' fringe - discredited now by half a century of critical responses to the counterculture - and to an increasingly hardened anti-romantic reaction.

Drawing on extensive original interviews, Fringe to Famous offers an overview of transformations in Australian culture since the 1980s, concluding with suggestions for cultural policy 'after the creative industries'. It proposes an idea of 'generative hybridity' between fringe and mainstream that allows us to imagine new possibilities for arts and culture in the 2020s and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501334900
• Artikelnr.: 69442760

Autorenporträt

Tony Moore is an Associate Professor in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Australia, with interests in the interplay between creative and political countercultures and mainstream society. He is author of three books and leads the Australian Research Council Projects Conviction Politics: The Convict Routes of Australian Democracy and Comedy Country: Australian Performance Comedy as an Agent of Change. Tony has also worked as a documentary maker at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and commissioning editor at Pluto and Cambridge University Press.