TY  - CONF
  - Hogan, Eileen
  - IASPM UK-IRL Conference, Worlds of Popular Music
  - ‘To give people a reason to stay here’: Collective ethos in music-making and urban creative entrepreneurialism against a politics of austerity
  - University College Cork
  - Oral Presentation
  - 2014
  - ()
  - 0
  - 12-SEP-14
  - 14-SEP-14
  - The growing interest of policy makers in urban cultural production and consumption is related to the spiralling popularity of ‘creativity’, ‘creative cities’ and the ‘creative industries’ in cultural and economic policy discourse. The ‘creative class’ concept, dogmatised by Florida (2002), finds its underpinning intellectual arguments in the post-Fordist restructuring of the western urban economies, which prompted a shift in perspective from ‘managerialism’ to ‘entrepreneurialism’ (Harvey, 1989). This cultural economic discourse positions creative labour as the potential solution to urban problems; the underlying competitive economic model turns ‘citizens’ into ‘entrepreneurs’ and ‘consumers’ and is therefore complicit with the neoliberalisation of cultural policy (Gibson and Klocker 2005). This paper presents findings from ethnographic research with two music enterprises in Cork city – an independent record store and an independent music label. It explores how their owners/employees discursively position their aims and motivations for involvement in the local music scene.
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   = {Hogan,  Eileen },
   = {IASPM UK-IRL Conference, Worlds of Popular Music},
   = {{‘To give people a reason to stay here’: Collective ethos in music-making and urban creative entrepreneurialism against a politics of austerity}},
   = {University College Cork},
   = {Oral Presentation},
   = {2014},
   = {()},
   = {0},
  month = {Sep},
   = {14-SEP-14},
   = {{The growing interest of policy makers in urban cultural production and consumption is related to the spiralling popularity of ‘creativity’, ‘creative cities’ and the ‘creative industries’ in cultural and economic policy discourse. The ‘creative class’ concept, dogmatised by Florida (2002), finds its underpinning intellectual arguments in the post-Fordist restructuring of the western urban economies, which prompted a shift in perspective from ‘managerialism’ to ‘entrepreneurialism’ (Harvey, 1989). This cultural economic discourse positions creative labour as the potential solution to urban problems; the underlying competitive economic model turns ‘citizens’ into ‘entrepreneurs’ and ‘consumers’ and is therefore complicit with the neoliberalisation of cultural policy (Gibson and Klocker 2005). This paper presents findings from ethnographic research with two music enterprises in Cork city – an independent record store and an independent music label. It explores how their owners/employees discursively position their aims and motivations for involvement in the local music scene.}},
  source = {IRIS}
}