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Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries

About the Book Series

This series brings together book-length original research in cultural and creative industries from a range of perspectives. Charting developments in contemporary cultural and creative industries thinking around the world, the series aims to shape the research agenda to reflect the expanding significance of the creative sector in a globalised world.

52 Series Titles


NFTs, Creativity and the Law Within and Beyond Copyright

NFTs, Creativity and the Law: Within and Beyond Copyright

1st Edition

Edited By Enrico Bonadio, Caterina Sganga
June 14, 2024

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have emerged as an important medium for the creation, sale and collection of art, with many major business and fashion houses creating their own NFT projects. This book investigates the eruption of NFT crypto art, and its impact on copyright law. Chapters address topics ...

Orchestra Management Models and Repertoires for the Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra Management: Models and Repertoires for the Symphony Orchestra

1st Edition

By Arne Herman
May 27, 2024

Every orchestra in the world oscillates between crisis and survival. This perpetual movement makes innovation, both in organizational form and in artistic product, vital to the sustainability of the symphony orchestra. Based on case study research in Flanders, Amsterdam and London, this book ...

Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries

Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries

1st Edition

Edited By Melissa Terras, Vikki Jones, Nicola Osborne, Chris Speed
April 17, 2024

The creative industries – the place where art, business, and technology meet in economic activity – have been hugely affected by the relatively recent digitalisation (and often monetisation) of work, home, relationships, and leisure. Such trends were accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic. ...

The Economics of Libraries

The Economics of Libraries

1st Edition

By Marco Ferdinando Martorana, Ilde Rizzo
April 15, 2024

Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries, together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives, and they play an important role in the creative value chain. The Economics of Libraries highlights the economic importance ...

Craft as a Creative Industry

Craft as a Creative Industry

1st Edition

By Karen Patel
April 01, 2024

Craft is resurgent. More people are buying craft; more money is being spent on craft products than ever before. This book centres craft as a creative industry, illuminating the experiences of those working in and around craft, particularly people from marginalised groups. Shining a light on ...

Music as Labour Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present

Music as Labour: Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present

1st Edition

Edited By Dagmar Abfalter, Rosa Reitsamer
January 29, 2024

This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors ...

Risk in the Film Business Known Unknowns

Risk in the Film Business: Known Unknowns

1st Edition

By Michael Franklin
January 29, 2024

This book explores the complex, multifaceted and contested subject of risk in the film business. How risk is understood and managed has a substantial impact upon which films are financed, produced and seen. Founded on substantial original research accessing the highest level of industry ...

Diversity and Inclusion: Are We Nearly There Yet? Target Setting in the Screen Industries

Diversity and Inclusion: Are We Nearly There Yet?: Target Setting in the Screen Industries

1st Edition

By Doris Ruth Eikhof
November 09, 2023

This book provides the first compact knowledge base on diversity & inclusion (D&I) targets in the UK screen industries. Drawing on new, in-depth industry research and progressive theoretical voices, the book will help readers understand what D&I targets are and what they could be in the...

Co-Leadership in the Arts and Culture Sharing Values and Vision

Co-Leadership in the Arts and Culture: Sharing Values and Vision

1st Edition

By Wendy Reid, Hilde Fjellvær
September 25, 2023

This book is about co-leadership: A leadership practice and structure often found in arts organizations that consist of two or three executives who bridge the art and business divide at the top. Many practitioners recognize this phenomenon but the research on this topic is limited and dispersed. ...

Cultural Industries and the Covid-19 Pandemic A European Focus

Cultural Industries and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A European Focus

1st Edition

Edited By Elisa Salvador, Trilce Navarrete, Andrej Srakar
September 25, 2023

Already dealing with disruptive market forces, the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) faced fundamental challenges resulting from the global health crisis, wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. With catastrophic changes to cultural consumption, cultural organizations are dealing with short-, ...

Managing Cultural Festivals Tradition and Innovation in Europe

Managing Cultural Festivals: Tradition and Innovation in Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Elisa Salvador, Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen
September 25, 2023

This book aims at renewing the attention on a niche field, Cultural Festivals, so important for valorizing cultural traditions and local heritage visibility as well as social well-being. Following the disruptive consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, this fragile sector deserves more attention from...

Strategic Cultural Center Management

Strategic Cultural Center Management

1st Edition

By Tomas Jarvinen
May 31, 2023

Strategic Cultural Center Management focuses on private cultural centers and their operational preconditions. The aim is to illustrate how to strategically manage a cultural center in varied external environments. Analysing processes of organizational change, the author uses institutional and ...

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