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Culture Industry / Cultural Industries

Culture industry / cultural industries

The concept of ‘cultural industries’ has been used both descriptively and as a theoretical concept, in the singular (‘culture industry’) as well as the plural form. Where the term is used in cultural policy documents, it is typically used in the plural: ‘cultural industries’. This also tends to be the preferred terminology of political economists such as Hesmondhalgh (2007) and Miège (1989, 2011). By contrast, the term ‘culture industry’ is associated with neo-Marxist philosophy and cultural theory; including in the official policy discourse of countries like China where a distinction between the ‘culture industries’ (media, publishing – propaganda) and the ‘creative industries’ (small to medium enterprises (SMEs)) is maintained.

In cultural theory, the origins of the term arise ...

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