Culture Crash

Culture Crash
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780300210651
ISBN-13 : 0300210655
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Book Synopsis Culture Crash by : Scott Timberg

Download or read book Culture Crash written by Scott Timberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. We must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible to earn a living. A persistent economic recession, social shifts, and technological change have combined to put our artists—from graphic designers to indie-rock musicians, from architects to booksellers—out of work. This important book looks deeply and broadly into the roots of the crisis of the creative class in America and tells us why it matters. Scott Timberg considers the human cost as well as the unintended consequences of shuttered record stores, decimated newspapers, music piracy, and a general attitude of indifference. He identifies social tensions and contradictions—most concerning the artist’s place in society—that have plunged the creative class into a fight for survival. Timberg shows how America’s now-collapsing middlebrow culture—a culture once derided by intellectuals like Dwight Macdonald—appears, from today’s vantage point, to have been at least a Silver Age. Timberg’s reporting is essential reading for anyone who works in the world of culture, knows someone who does, or cares about the work creative artists produce.


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