This article charts key developments and cross-national variations in the coverage of foreign culture (i.e., classical popular music, dance, film, literature, theater, television, visual arts) Dutch, French, German, U.S. elite newspapers between 1955 2005. Such signals awareness among national elites degree direction “globalization from within.” Using content analysis, we examine degree, direction, diversity international orientation arts journalism for each country cultural genre. Results...

Abstract In this article, we describe general features of popular music coverage in elite newspapers the United States, France, Germany, and Netherlands from 1955 to 2005. Drawing on data content analysis over 4,000 newspaper articles sampled four reference years (1955, 1975, 1995, 2005), document broad changes continuities extent, focus, form mainstream media outlets each country. Acknowledgements This research was supported by Organization for Scientific Research as part VICI project...

This paper sets out to deepen our understanding of the relationship between popular music and cultural heritage delineate practices as heritage. The illustrates how term has been mobilised by a variety actors, from public private sector, highlight value particular manifestations justify or encourage their preservation diffusion for posterity. We focus on Austria, England, France Netherlands – countries with diverse histories varying national international reach. Popular is present in local...

The purpose of this special edition Popular Music and Society is to bring together a series articles from an international group scholars who consider, in particular locally specific ways, how popular music has become object memory and, turn, focus for contemporary renditions history cultural heritage. music’s links evocation the past have been evident many years. Frith highlighted inherently nostalgic properties, point reinforced by DeNora her highly instructive work on propensity both link...

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size AcknowledgementsThis research has been supported as part of the Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Identity (POPID) project by HERA Joint Research Programme (www.heranet.info) which is co-funded AHRC, AKA, DASTI, ETF, FNR, FWF, HAZU, IRCHSS, MHEST, NWO, RANNIS, RCN, VR The European Community FP7 2007-2013, under Socio-economic Sciences Humanities programme.

In the second half of twentieth century, volume, content and appearance arts journalism in Western daily newspapers have changed significantly accordance with wider transformations journalism. Previous studies focused on (1) which culture receives attention, (2) way gets (3) economic pressures underlying transformations. this article we aim to bring these strands together by analyzing how changes packaging evolved relation cultural is discussed volume (cultural) advertising that featured...

Contributing to research on social processes of cultural de-hierarchization, this article explores how critical recognition in elite newspapers is related the that authors receive from other agents literary field past half-century. We distinguish four types institutional recognition: (a) long-term encyclopedias, (b) short-term through awards, (c) bestseller list success, and (d) prestige publishers. Our study uses a sample articles 1955, 1975, 1995 2005 French, German, Dutch US papers (...

In contrast to most studies on cultural globalization, this article examines the dynamics of cross-cultural exchange between and within (Western) nation-states. Through content analysis, authors study extent composition newspaper coverage given literary non-Western ethnic origin—both foreign domestic—in four nations across 50 years.The analysis reveals, among other things, that attention minority appears related various features a nation’s population, national field is receptive diversity,...

Various studies report that cultural journalism increasingly focuses on service and entertainment instead of serious arts coverage. The press prioritizes popular culture over traditional high to a growing extent. However, this shift in journalistic attention does not necessarily signify straightforward decline aesthetic standards, as forms like film have developed along the lines art principles past decades. This article charts trends American, Dutch, French, German between 1955 2005. It...

Numerous studies provide critical analyses of TV minority representations but only few examine successful portrayals. Moreover, there is no consensus on what makes a given depiction and how to measure it. Bringing insights from representation media psychology, we propose that showcase minorities in way which may foster audience engagement with characters improve their diversity attitudes. In the current project, developed quantitative content analysis codebook following strategies: portrayal...

This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries their reviews of minority writers between 1983 2009 these changed course writers’ careers across time. By analysing newspaper reviews, we find that American reviewers less often mention background Mexican authors than Dutch German colleagues refer Moroccan Turkish writers. While relatively strong become weaker over time (boundary shifting), encounter particularly...