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.

Provides new insight into what happens when aesthetics meet politics Describes how the agency of arts and music is put to work within cultural policy Presents important case studies from the Nordic model of cultural policy to an international audience

Autorentext
Ole Marius Hylland is Senior Researcher at the Telemark Research Institute in Bø, Norway.

Erling Bjurström is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Research at Linköping University, Sweden.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 The relational politics of aesthetics. An introduction.- Chapter 2 Musical nation Bildung. The twin enterprises Concerts Norway and Concerts Sweden.- Chapter 3 Fifty years of aesthetic construction work: The music policy of Arts Council Norway 1965-2015.- Chapter 4 Music for One and All? Music Education Policy in Norway and England.- Chapter 5 The art of foreign policy. Aesthetics' developmental agency in foreign cultural policy.- Chapter 6 Knowledge production as mediator between aesthetics and politics. The role of research in cultural policy.- Chapter 7 Aesthetics + politics =.