Political pragmatism and the creative economy: Singapore as a City for the Arts

Ooi, Can‐Seng

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“…Herrero, Sanz, Bedate, and Barrio (2012) compared the WTP of local residents and tourists attending a music festival in Spain, whereas Andersson, Armbrecht, and Lundberg (2012) (Morgner, 2014). Moreover, Singapore is an interesting city due to its deliberate strategy to transform itself into a cultural city after having enjoyed stellar industrial success (Ooi, 2010). Popularizing its festivals is highly challenging for any emerging cultural city.…”

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Different Hearth, Different Worth: Sustaining an Emerging Festival in the New Cultural City of Singapore

Chang¹,

Mahadevan²

2017

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city faces in trying to sustain an emerging festival. Festival sustainability depends on visitor numbers and the entry fee, among other factors. Thus, this study uses contingent valuation (CV) to focus on the willingness to pay (WTP), as well as the attitudes and preferences, of tourists, local attenders, and potential attenders-that is, local residents who have not been to the festival. These are all critical parties whose patronage keeps festivals running. It is particularly important to understand the Introduction Cultural tourism's rapid growth makes it a major driving force of the urban tourism system (Ark & Richards, 2006). In particular, highly urbanized cities face greater competition from other cities that have caught onto festivalization to develop and broaden the scope of their appeal to tourists (Whyte, Hood, & White, 2012 This study examines some challenges and draws lessons for a new cultural city promoting an emerging festival. This was done by considering the valuation of the festival and its determinants by foreign tourists, domestic tourists, and potential attenders (a group often ignored in the literature). For a young festival, it was encouraging to find that the festival's social value to tourists, local attenders, and potential attenders exceeded the entry fee. Overall, the Biennale was more popular with younger people, and local attenders appreciated the educational dimension of the event. This augurs well for the future of this festival. However, for the festival's sustainability, it is important to strike a balance between catering to preferences of international and local attenders as well as avoid trying to achieve multiple objectives that may lead to a dilution in the focus and identity of the new festival.

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Different Hearth, Different Worth: Sustaining an Emerging Festival in the New Cultural City of Singapore

Chang¹,

Mahadevan²

2017

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“…Free events and outreach programs build an interest in the arts by fostering community engagement, hobby groups and clubs, and by supporting practitioners. Censorship has been relaxed to encourage creativity, although restrictions continued on socio-political content around racial and religious harmony (Ooi, 2010). Emerging talent was mentored.…”

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Machiavelli Meets Michelangelo

Freeman

Duffy

2016

Sage Open

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This article examines newspaper coverage of the arts in Singapore to consider the role of the island state’s newspapers in the development and documentation of Singapore’s growing arts scene. Sampling two constructed weeks for each of 10 years, 1999 to 2008, content analysis is used to examine arts coverage in the Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao. The study benefits from groundwork laid by Janssen’s 1999 study of arts coverage in Dutch newspapers, in which not only quantity of content was reported but also hierarchical attention was paid to art forms over decades. Singapore is of interest as it represents a country where neither the arts nor newspapers are declining, and both enjoy significant overseeing by the government.

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“…Much has been written in relation to Singapore's cultural policy and creative economy (Chang, 2000, Chang and Lee, 2003, Ooi, 2010, Wong et al, 2006, Kong et al, 2006, Ooi, 2008, Lim, 2012, Chang and Mahadevan, 2013, Lee, 2004, Chong, 2005. The emphasis on the creative economy and creative industries emerged in Singapore cultural policy with the Renaissance City Plan (MITA, 2002) emphasising the role that arts and cultural play (and could play) in further growth and future of Singapore (Ooi, 2010, Wong et al, 2006.…”

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“…From the perspective of a better understanding of creative HE in Singapore, it is important to consider two somewhat intertwined policy interventions: on one side the growing importance of Singapore as international knowledge economy hub since the late nineties, with key infrastructure and emphasis on the role played by its HE institutions in supporting and furthering the national economic success Lee, 2011, Olds, 2007); on the other, a new cultural policy framework, with strong emphasis on the creative economy developed since 2002 (Ooi, 2010).…”

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Global aspirations and local talent: the development of creative higher education in Singapore

Comunian

Ooi

2015

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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This paper explores higher education development and policy shifts in Singapore over the last decade, within a landscape of an increasingly globalised creative economy and international cultural policy transfer. Using qualitative interviews with key players in policy and higher education institutions, the paper aims to explain the push and pull factors behind investment in creative higher education. It considers the emerging dynamics and diverse patterns, embedded in a society where higher education interactions with economic development have a long history and pragmatic rationale. While still in the early days of these investments, the paper argues that there are some global policy lessons to be learnt from the case of Singapore and the role that higher education can play in developing a creative economy, while striving to overcome issues of over-supply and innate vulnerability of creative careers.

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Political pragmatism and the creative economy: Singapore as a City for the Arts

Cited by 27 publications

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Different Hearth, Different Worth: Sustaining an Emerging Festival in the New Cultural City of Singapore

Different Hearth, Different Worth: Sustaining an Emerging Festival in the New Cultural City of Singapore

Machiavelli Meets Michelangelo

Global aspirations and local talent: the development of creative higher education in Singapore

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