Culture is Bad for You

Culture is Bad for You

Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien & Mark Taylor
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The revised and updated edition of this popular title shines a light on the precarious situation of art workers today. Culture keeps you fit and healthy. Culture brings communities together. Culture improves your education. This is the message endlessly repeated by the government and arts organisations. But as this ground-breaking book explains, we need to be cautious about culture.

Culture is Bad for You presents an unflinching portrait of the cultural landscape in the UK today. It reveals how women, people of colour and those from working-class backgrounds are systematically excluded, despite the claims of cultural institutions and businesses. Updated to provide a report on the situation after COVID, this edition reveals that despite grand promises from those at the top, exclusion and precarity remain the norm.

While inequalities of workforce and audience remain unaddressed, the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised. This book offers a powerful call to transform cultural and creative industries

     

    Authors: Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien & Mark Taylor 

    Publisher: Manchester University Press

    Format: Paperback

    Pages: 408

    ISBN: 9781526177810

    Publication Date: March 2024