Table Of ContentAESTHETICS AND POLITICS
A Nordic Perspective on How Cultural Policy
Negotiates the Agency of Music and Arts
Edited by
Ole Marius Hylland
Erling Bjurstršm
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Aesthetics and Politics
A Nordic Perspective on How Cultural Policy
Negotiates the Agency of Music and Arts
Editors
Ole Marius Hylland Erling Bjurström
Telemark Research Institute Linköping University
Bø, Telemark, Norway Stockholm, Sweden
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reface
This book is the result of a collaboration between researchers from
Norway, Sweden and the UK. It is based on the research of a project
under the full name of The Relational Politics of Aesthetics—Negotiating
Relations Between Art and Society Through Cultural Policy. This project
was funded by the SAMKUL programme of the Research Council of
Norway from 2013 to 2017.
The basic ideas of this book are fairly simple. First of all, the book
aims to show how cultural policy, exemplified by case studies, entails a
process of negotiating, translating and brokering between aesthetics and
politics. What happens when objects of beauty and aesthetic appreciation
are deemed to be viable political currency? Secondly, the book describes
how this negotiating process is legitimated by production of knowledge,
and how there is a certain interdependence between the production
of politics and the production of knowledge within the cultural policy
realm. Finally, the book shows how the rendezvous of aesthetics and pol-
itics in effect is an ongoing meeting of value systems, a game of values.
The book has an empirical basis in Nordic cultural policy and espe-
cially in case studies from Norway. Our ambition has been to show
the general relevance of this variety of cultural policy, and we sincerely
believe that the overall analyses based on these cases have relevance far
beyond our Nordic borders.
There is a fair amount of work that has resulted in this book, but it
would not have surfaced without the help of some key people. The edi-
tors would first of all like to thank Research Council Norway for the
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grant that made the project possible in the first place. We would also like
to thank Telemark Research Institute and its director Karl Gunnar Sanda
for creating a flexible institutional home for the work in the project.
Furthermore, we would like to thank and send a regard to Egil Bjørnsen,
formerly at Agder Research, who was a key participant in the project
for three years. Finally, we would like to express gratitude to the New
Directions in Cultural Policy Research series editor Eleanora Belfiore and
to our helpful editors at Palgrave, Heloise Harding and Lucy Batrouney.
Bø, Norway Ole Marius Hylland
Stockholm, Sweden Erling Bjurström
March 2018
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ontents
1 The Relational Politics of Aesthetics: An Introduction 1
Ole Marius Hylland and Erling Bjurström
2 Musical Nation Bildung: The Twin Enterprises Concerts
Norway and Concerts Sweden 25
Erling Bjurström and Ole Marius Hylland
3 50 Years of Aesthetic Construction Work: The Music
Policy of Arts Council Norway 1965–2015 67
Ole Marius Hylland and Heidi Stavrum
4 Music for One and All? Music Education Policy
in Norway and England 95
Jane Woddis and Ann Christin E. Nilsen
5 The Art of Foreign Policy: Aesthetics’ Developmental
Agency in Foreign Cultural Policy 137
Ola K. Berge
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6 Knowledge Production as Mediator Between Aesthetics
and Politics: The Role of Research in Cultural Policy 165
Ole Marius Hylland and Per Mangset
7 Aesthetics + Politics 191
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Ole Marius Hylland and Erling Bjurström
Index 205
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Ola K. Berge (Ph.D. in cultural studies) holds his degree from the
University College of Southeast Norway. He has worked at the Section
for Cultural Policy Research at Telemark Research Institute since 2009.
His professional interests cover cultural diplomacy and foreign cultural
policy, cultural policy and research that in different ways relate to popular
culture, art sociology and musicology. Based on this, Berge has published
a range of scientific articles and research reports, i.a. on the Norwegian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ cultural policy practice, Norwegian and
Nordic cultural policies, and current developments and copyright issues
within the field of music.
Erling Bjurström is Professor Emeritus at Linköping University in
Sweden and has done research within the fields of media, cultural studies,
cultural sociology, the philosophy of taste, the arts and musicology. His
latest publication in Swedish is Det moderna smakspelet. Tid, smak, mode
(The modern taste game: Time, taste, fashion). Among his publications
in English are Children and Television Advertising and (as co-author of)
Consuming Media: Communication, Shopping and Everyday Life.
Ole Marius Hylland (Ph.D.) is a Senior Researcher at Telemark Research
Institute and is the coordinator for cultural policy studies at the i nstitute.
Hylland majored in folklore studies and wrote his doctoral thesis in
cultural history about public education in the 1800s. His research
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