Description:
This volume studies the relationships between government and the popular music industries within three Anglophone nations: Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. At a time when issues of globalization and locality are seldom out of the news, musicians, fans, governments, and industries are forced to reconsider older certainties about popular music activity and their roles in production and consumption circuits. Popular music provides a focus for many of these topics--and popular music policy a lens through which to view them.