David Hesmondhalgh 
The Cultural Industries [PDF ebook] 

PART ONE: INTRODUCING THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES
Chapter 1 Change and Continuity, Power and Creativity
Chapter 2 The Cultural Industries Approach: Distinctive Features of Culture-Producing Businesses
PART TWO: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS
Chapter 3 Theories of Culture, Theories of Cultural Production
Chapter 4 Cultural Industries in the Twentieth Century: The Key Features
Chapter 5 Why the Cultural Industries Began to Change in the 1980s
PART THREE: POLICY CHANGE
Chapter 6 Policy Change in Media and Telecommunications: Marketisation and Copyright
Chapter 7 Cultural Policy: Creative Cities, Creative Industries, Creative Economies
PART FOUR: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES, 1990-2017
Chapter 8 Ownership (1): Concentration, Conglomeration and Corporate Power, 1980-2010
Chapter 9 Ownership (2): Concentration, Conglomeration and Corporate Power, 2010 onwards
Chapter 10 How the Claims of Digital Optimists were Contradicted by the Rise of Digital Culture
Chapter 11 The Effects of Digital Networks on Individual Industries
Chapter 12 Creativity, Commerce and Organisation
Chapter 13 Working Conditions and Inequalities in the Cultural Industries
Chapter 14 Internationalisation: Neither Globalisation nor Cultural Imperialism
Chapter 15 Texts: Diversity, Quality and Social Justice
Chapter 16 Conclusions: A New Era in Cultural Production?
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David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media, Music and Culture in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Cultural Industries (SAGE, 2019); Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (Palgrave, 2015, co-written with Kate Oakley, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett); Why Music Matters (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013); and Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (Routledge, 2011, co-written with Sarah Baker). He is also editor or co-editor of eight other books or special journal issues on media, music and culture, including a special issue of Popular Communication (co-edited with Anamik Saha) on Race and Cultural Production; The Media and Social Theory (Routledge, co-edited with Jason Toynbee, 2008) and Media and Society, 6th edition (Bloomsbury, co-edited with James Curran, 2019). He was born and raised in Accrington, Lancashire, did his first degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and received his Ph D from Goldsmiths University of London in 1996. He lives in Yorkshire with his partner, the philosopher Helen Steward, and they have two adult children, Rosa and Joe.