Culture Crash : The Killing of the Creative Class / Scott Timberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Timberg, Scott, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability--United States--History--21st century.

Creative ability.

Social classes--United States--History--21st century.

Social classes.

Social change--United States--History--21st century.

Social change.

Popular culture--United States--History--21st century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

2015.

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When artists and artisans can't make a living, the health of America's culture is at risk Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. We must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible to earn a living. A persistent economic recession, social shifts, and technological change have combined to put our artists-from graphic designers to indie-rock musicians, from architects to booksellers-out of work. This important book looks deeply and broadly into the roots of the crisis of the creative class in America and tells us why it matters. Scott Timberg considers the human cost as well as the unintended consequences of shuttered record stores, decimated newspapers, music piracy, and a general attitude of indifference. He identifies social tensions and contradictions-most concerning the artist's place in society-that have plunged the creative class into a fight for survival. Timberg shows how America's now-collapsing middlebrow culture-a culture once derided by intellectuals like Dwight Macdonald-appears, from today's vantage point, to have been at least a Silver Age. Timberg's reporting is essential reading for anyone who works in the world of culture, knows someone who does, or cares about the work creative artists produce.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Down We Go Together

1. When Culture Works

2. Disappearing Clerks and the Lost Sense of Place

3. Of Permatemps and Content Serfs

4. Indie Rock's Endless Road

5. The Architecture Meltdown

6. Idle Dreamers: Curse of the Creative Class

7. The End of Print

8. Self-Inflicted Wounds

9. Lost in the Supermarket: Winner-Take-All

Epilogue: Restoring the Middle

Bibliographical Essay

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21065-5

OCLC:

898893135