Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the introduction of a unique vocational training programme: the New Deal For Musicians (NDFM). It traces the development of the scheme by examining the increasingly close relationship between the music industry and the British political establishment. It is argued that only by understanding the development of this relationship can the NDFM be explained. The articles explains how popular music, an art form which is frequently portrayed as above all a commercial, free market form has come to rely on state support from a Labour government that has elsewhere eschewed the interventionist approach of its predecessors. The conclusion offers some explanations for this apparently paradoxical situation.
Author: Martin Cloonan
Institution: University of Glasgow
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2139711077