Aesthetics and Politics

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Through comparative and integrated case studies, this book demonstrates how aesthetics becomes politics in cultural policy. Contributors from Norway, Sweden and the UK analyse exactly what happens when art is considered relevant for societal development, at both a practical and theoretical level. Cultural policy is seen here as a mechanism for translating values, that through organized and practical aesthetical judgement lend different forms of agency to the arts. What happens when aesthetical value is reinterpreted as political value? What kinds of negotiations take place at a cultural policy ground level when values are translated and reinterpreted? By addressing these questions, the editors present an original collection that effectively centralises and investigates the role of aesthetics in cultural policy research. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii The Relational Politics of Aesthetics: An Introduction (Ole Marius Hylland, Erling Bjurström)....Pages 1-23 Musical Nation Bildung: The Twin Enterprises Concerts Norway and Concerts Sweden (Erling Bjurström, Ole Marius Hylland)....Pages 25-65 50 Years of Aesthetic Construction Work: The Music Policy of Arts Council Norway 1965–2015 (Ole Marius Hylland, Heidi Stavrum)....Pages 67-94 Music for One and All? Music Education Policy in Norway and England (Jane Woddis, Ann Christin E. Nilsen)....Pages 95-135 The Art of Foreign Policy: Aesthetics’ Developmental Agency in Foreign Cultural Policy (Ola K. Berge)....Pages 137-164 Knowledge Production as Mediator Between Aesthetics and Politics: The Role of Research in Cultural Policy (Ole Marius Hylland, Per Mangset)....Pages 165-189 Aesthetics + Politics = (Ole Marius Hylland, Erling Bjurström)....Pages 191-203 Back Matter ....Pages 205-210