From cultural industries to creative economy: The popular culture within the public policy

Abstract

Lately, creative industries have become an extremely popular concept in cultural policies across the globe. For many, it came as a surprise. However, the idea of merging culture and arts with industrial production has been slowly evolving during the 20th century, thus there is not much space for a surprise. The aim of this paper is to position creative industries in a broader historical and theoretical framework. The paper is looking at the interplay of popular culture and public (cultural) policies: from the post-war critical theory of the Frankfurt school and UNESCO's early debate on cultural industries to the recent policies and theories on creative economy and creative industries.

Keywords

• creative industries
• cultural industries
• cultural policy
• Frankfurt school