Worth attention:

• Stanbridge investigates the impact that a narrow understanding of music has on cultural policy, as reflected in music funding,  the musical repertoire of live performances, and in recordings of the publishing industry (p.255-271).
• Zalfen examines the crisis of opera, looking at selected big opera houses in Western Europe, and shows how this perception of -mainly funding- problems reveals a model of communication in modern societies for the structural changes in the cultural field (p.273-286).
• On the basis of two cases studies from Sweden, Lindquist analyses the relationship between public administration and cultural management and concludes that public governance has a negative impact on planning and action (p.303-317).

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