The "New World" of Culture: Reexamining Canadian Cultural Policy

From Public Interest To Creators’ Interest: An Examination Of The Policy Discourse Shifts in Canadian Broadcasting: 2003-2007

“…However, a gap appears to exist when it comes to scholars addressing policy shifts that occur in broadcasting. Goff and Jenkins (2006), Elliott (2017) and others have explored shifts in Canadian cultural policy, yet little has been written about the shift in the policy discourse specifically around Canadian broadcasting.…”

The justification of a music city: Handbooks, intermediaries and value disputes in a global policy assemblage

“…In the British context, this agenda had aligned with the intellectual property thrust of much "creative industries" policy discourse: government became far more interventionist in its approach to music (Cloonan 2007); while a range of music industry trade bodies consolidated their lobbying capacities, forming a new umbrella organisation, UK Music. Canada's much longer and more circuitous history of state involvement in popular music is founded in its exceptionalist approach to Francophone and indigenous cultural identity (in content quotas, for example) alongside economic imperatives driven by the competitive threat from its border with the United States (Goff and Jenkins 2006). This context was also the seedbed for international consultancy work: the Sound Diplomacy agency was founded by a former Music Canada employee with a doctorate on the history of Canadian music funding (Shapiro 2014).…”

The Economic Lives of Circus “Artists”: Canadian Circus Performers and the New Economy

“…At the time it was released, this report received significant backlash (Mccormack, 1984), but after a few years its ideas formed the groundwork for a newnormal understanding of the relationship between art and the market. this became especially relevant in the context of ongoing divestment in these areas over the past 30 years, as state-led cultural investment has become more difficult due to deregulation and the growth of cUFtA (canada-US Free trade Agreement) and NAFtA (North American Free trade Agreement) (Goff & Jenkins, 2006). Goff and Jenkins (2006) argue that in comparison to what they call "traditional" nationalist cultural policies in canada (of which the canada council for the Arts is emblematic), most contemporary cultural policies focus on the "creative city."…”

“…this became especially relevant in the context of ongoing divestment in these areas over the past 30 years, as state-led cultural investment has become more difficult due to deregulation and the growth of cUFtA (canada-US Free trade Agreement) and NAFtA (North American Free trade Agreement) (Goff & Jenkins, 2006). Goff and Jenkins (2006) argue that in comparison to what they call "traditional" nationalist cultural policies in canada (of which the canada council for the Arts is emblematic), most contemporary cultural policies focus on the "creative city." this new model still receives funding from national and provincial sources, but also receives a lot more funding from private sources than the previous model.…”