Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture

Cultural products are those that have high levels of "aesthetic and semiotic" content, such as music, video games, television, and fashion. Power (economic geography, Uppsala U., Sweden) and Scott (geography and policy studies, U. of California at Los Angeles, US) present 14 papers that explore the place of the cultural industries in regional and national economies. The papers, frequently referring to empirical case studies, discuss the major trends in cultural production, the city as a resource of cultural creativity, clustering processes in cultural industries, and cultural production for global markets in peripheral regions. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Allen J. Scott is Professor of Policy studies and Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles and Dominic is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden.