Making culture : commercialisation, transnationalism, and the state of "nationing" in contemporary Australia / edited by David Rowe, Graeme Turner and Emma Waterton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making culture / David Rowe, Graeme Turner and Emma Waterton -- The literary field : the book trade and the arts ecology : transnationalism and digitization in the Australian literary field / David Carter and Michelle Kelly -- The art field : beyond nation, beyond art? The "rules of art" in contemporary Australia / Tony Bennett -- The Australian art field : fairs and markets / Deborah Stevenson -- The music field : "the music nation" : popular music and Australian cultural policy / Shane Homan -- The media field : television : commercialization, the decline of nationing, and the status of the media field / Graeme Turner -- The heritage field : A history of heritage policy in Australia : from hope to philanthropy / Emma Waterton -- The sport field : the sport field in Australia : the market, the state, the nation and the world beyond in Pierre Bourdieu's favourite game / David Rowe -- The digital : "crossing the technical Rubicon" : marketizing culture and fields of the digital / Brett Hutchins -- Tourism : touring nation : the changing meanings of cultural tourism / Chris Gibson -- Indigeneity : indigeneity, cosmopolitanism and the nation : the project of NITV / Ben Dibley and Graeme Turner -- Multiculturalism : making multiculture : Australia, culture and the ambivalent politics of diversity / Ien Ang and Greg Noble -- Undoing the bonds of nation/rediscovering dead souls / Ien Ang and Greg Noble.

"Making Culture provides an in-depth discussion of Australia's relationship between the building of national cultural identity - or 'nationing' - and the country's cultural production and consumption. With the 1994 national cultural policy Creative Nation as a starting point for many of the essays included in this collection, the book investigates transformations within Australia's various cultural fields, exploring the implications of nationing and the gradual movement away from it. Underlying these analyses are the key questions and contradictions confronting any modern nation-state that seeks to develop and defend a national culture while embracing the transnational and the global. Including topics such as Australia's publishing industry, rugby, the music industry, tourism, Indigeneity and the influence of digital technology and output, Making Culture is an essential volume for students and scholars within Australian and Cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.