The world's cultures and their forms of creation, presentation and preservation are deeply affected by globalization in ways that are inadequately documented and understood. The Cultures and Globalization series is designed to fill this void in our knowledge. In this series, leading experts and emerging scholars track cultural trends connected to globalization throughout the world, resulting in a powerful analytic tool-kit that encompasses the transnational flows and scapes of contemporary cultures. Each volume presents data on cultural phenomena through colourful, innovative information graphics to give a quantitative portrait of the cultural dimensions and contours of globalization. This second volume The Cultural Economy analyses the dynamic relationship in which culture is part of the process of economic change that in turn changes the conditions of culture. It brings together perspectives from different disciplines to examine such critical issues as: • the production of cultural goods and services and the patterns of economic globalization • the relationship between the commodification of the cultural economy and the aesthetic realm • current and emerging organizational forms for the investment, production, distribution and consumption of cultural goods and services • the complex relations between creators, producers, distributors and consumers of culture • the policy implications of a globalizing cultural economy By demonstrating empirically how the cultural industries interact with globalization, this volume will provide students of contemporary culture with a unique, indispensable reference tool.

Table of Contents:
THE CULTURAL ECONOMY TODAY Cultural Economy - Stuart Cunningham, John Banks and Jason Potts The Shape of the Field GLOBALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION Globalization and the Cultural Economy - David Throsby A Crisis of Value? Locating the Cultural Economy - Andy Pratt The Global Cultural Economy - Daniel Drache and Marc D. Froese Power, Citizenship and Dissent Strange Bedfellows - Mira Sundara Rajan Law and Culture ACTORS AND FORMS Free Culture and Creative Commons - Frances Pinter Cultural Entrepreneurs - Tom Aageson Producing Cultural Value and Wealth The Intergovernmental Policy Actors - Yudhishthir Raj Isar REGIONAL REALITIES Globalization and the Cultural Economy - Francis B. Nyamnjoh Africa Globalization and the Crafts in South Asia - Jasleen Dhamija East Asia - Michael Keane the Global-Regional Dynamic The New Korean Wave of U - Jaz Choi The Impact of Globalization on the Cultural Industries of Central Asia - Florent le Duc European Cultural Systems in Turmoil - Xavier Greffe Countries in Transition - Kirill Razlogov Which Way to Go? Southeastern Europe - Nada Švob-Ðokic, Jaka Primorac and Krešimir Jurlin Emergences and Developments Impact and Responses in Latin America and the Caribbean - Ana Carla Fonseca Reis and Andrea Davis The Local Creative Economy in the United States of America - Margaret Wyszomirski FIELDS AND GENRES Spatial Dynamics of Film and Television - Michael Curtin Anyone For Games? - Toby Miller Via the New International Division of Labor Digital Media - Gerard Goggin Fashion - Sabine Ichikawa Festivals - Dragan Klaic Seeking Artistic Distinction in a Crowded Field The Bahia Carnival - Paulo Miguez Making Material Cultural Heritage Work - Martha Friel and Walter Santagata From Traditional Handicrafts to Soft Industrial Design Australian Indigenous Art - Mark David Ryan, Michael Keane and Stuart Cunningham Local Dreamings, Global Consumption New York′s Chelsea District - David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso a ′Global′ and Local Perspective on Contemporary Art Cultural Economy - Allen J. Scott Retrospect and Prospect