Title Out of the basement : youth cultural production in practice and in policy / Miranda Campbell

Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 284 pages) Contents Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Practices -- Introduction : Mapping youth cultural production -- 1. Youth voices : Life stories of navigation and negotiation -- 2. Registering bedroom economies : Theoretical contexts of youth cultural production -- Part Two. Structures -- .3 Does youth matter? Cultural policy in Canada -- 4. Making the case for culture : Youth and cultural participation -- 5. 'Creative Britain' and the Canadian context : Youth, education, and entrepreneurship -- 6. Montreal, city of strife? Agitation, negotiation, and visions of the Scene -- Part Three. Initiatives -- 7. Beyond subculture : The role of networks in supporting youth-led initiatives -- 8. Community-based models of youth involvement with the creative industries : Ignite the Americas and the Remix Project -- Conclusion : Towards a comprehensive youth policy framework to support youth cultural production -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Soulja Boy, Justin Bieber, and Tavi Gevinson are hardly representative of typical youth experiences, but their origins highlight many of the realities of youth doing independent creative work. 'Out of the Basement' profiles the variety of youth cultural production in the twenty-first century, and asks what has - or has not - changed as youth attempt to make a living from creative works. Though any young person with a laptop might have greater means to make music, films, or publish writing than in the past, the skills necessary to make a living in today's creative industries are not taught in schools - young artists must find their own way out of their basements. Integrating cultural studies, media education, and subculture studies, Miranda Campbell profiles this process of navigation and negotiation - one largely overlooked in discussions of creative economies - through the life stories of young people who are building careers through cultural work. She considers how existing policies can impede small-scale cultural production and calls for more awareness and support of youth creative enterprise. Moving between the structures directed toward creative life and the initiatives that young people produce themselves in the absence of relevant structures, 'Out of the Basement' offers a timely analysis of the rise of small-scale creative employment Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Cultural industries -- Canada -- Case studies Youth -- Canada -- Case studies Popular culture -- Canada -- Case studies Cultural policy -- Case studies POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. Cultural industries Cultural policy Popular culture Youth Konstnärligt skapande. Ungdomar. Konst. Kulturindustri. Anställning. SUBJECT Canada -- Cultural policy -- Case studies Subject Canada Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773588509 0773588507

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