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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.

58 Series Titles


Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the US

Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the US

1st Edition

By antonio c. cuyler
April 29, 2022

Analyzing the lack of diversity among opera executives, this book examines the careers of executive opera managers of color in the U.S. By interrogating the impact of race on arts managers’ careers, the author contemplates how opera might attract and retain more racially diverse arts managers to ...

Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts

Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts

1st Edition

By Stephanie E. Pitts, Sarah M. Price
April 29, 2022

Drawing on unique multi-arts, multi-city scholarly research, Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts makes a timely and urgent contribution to debates about the place of arts and culture in contemporary society.   The authors critically interrogate the challenges of access, diversity, ...

The Classical Music Industry

The Classical Music Industry

1st Edition

By Chris Dromey, Julia Haferkorn
May 29, 2020

This volume brings together academics, executives and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of the classical music industry. The central practices, theories and debates that empower and regulate the industry are explored through the lens of classical ...

Music Business Careers Career Duality in the Creative Industries

Music Business Careers: Career Duality in the Creative Industries

1st Edition

By Cheryl Carr
March 26, 2019

The music industry offers the opportunity to pursue a career as either a creative (artist, producer, songwriter, etc.) or as a music business "logician" (artist manager, agent, entertainment attorney, venue manager, etc.). Though both vocational paths are integral to the industry’s success, the ...

Managing Organisational Success in the Arts

Managing Organisational Success in the Arts

1st Edition

Edited By David Stevenson
October 11, 2018

The creative and cultural industries are a dynamic and rapidly expanding field of enterprise. Yet all too often the dominant narrative about arts organisations is one of crisis, collapse, and closure. This edited collection seeks to challenge that narrative through pursuing a focus on ...

Performing Arts Center Management

Performing Arts Center Management

1st Edition

Edited By Patricia Lambert, Robyn Williams
August 06, 2018

Performing arts centers (PACs) are an integral part of the cultural and creative industries, significantly influencing the cultural, social, and economic vitality of communities around the world. Virtually all PACs are community-based and serve the public interest, whether structured as a public, ...

Arts and Business Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society

Arts and Business: Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society

1st Edition

Edited By Elena Raviola, Peter Zackariasson
June 08, 2018

Arts and Business aims at bringing arts and business scholars together in a dialogue about a number of key topics that today form different understandings in the two disciplines. Arts and business are, many times, positioned as opposites. Where one is providing symbolic and aesthetic immersion, the...

Artistic Interventions in Organizations Research, Theory and Practice

Artistic Interventions in Organizations: Research, Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Ulla Sköldberg, Jill Woodilla, Ariane Berthoin Antal
March 29, 2018

Artistic intervention, where the world of the arts is brought into organizations, has increasingly become a research field in itself with strong links to both creativity and innovation. Opportunities for the arts to interact with public and private organizations occur worldwide, but during the last...

Arts Governance People, Passion, Performance

Arts Governance: People, Passion, Performance

1st Edition

By Ruth Rentschler
February 12, 2018

Since the crisis in governance which led to a shortage of capable board members, recent years have seen the emergence of the enterprising arts organisation – a development which has led to the need for new types of board members who have a greater understanding of 'mission, money and merit' within ...

Building Better Arts Facilities Lessons from a U.S. National Study

Building Better Arts Facilities: Lessons from a U.S. National Study

1st Edition

By Joanna Woronkowicz, D. Carroll Joynes, Norman Bradburn
September 29, 2015

At the turn of the 21st century, a significant boom in the construction of cultural buildings took saw the creation of hundreds of performing arts centers, theaters, and museums. After these buildings were completed, however, many of these cultural organizations struggled to survive, or, ...

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