The Persistent Case for the Creative Industries

Campbell, Peter

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Peter Campbell⁶

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Abstract

This chapter examines the manner in which statistics underlying a narrative of economic success relating to the creative industries in the UK have been produced. The changes in definition which support these statistics are traced, and the way in which culturally expressive activity is presented as being of central importance to figures based in large part on non-culturally expressive activity is explained. The role for specific actors and methods in ‘repairing’ these statistics at points of crisis is examined, and the recurring patterns in these statistics are analysed. Recent indications that some seek to focus narratives around the value of creativity away from culturally expressive forms are also considered.

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Campbell, P. (2019). The Persistent Case for the Creative Industries. In: Persistent Creativity. Sociology of the Arts . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03119-0_5

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