“The shift in nomenclature – from the rusty coinage of ‘cultural industries’ to the newly minted ‘creative industries’ – is usually credited to the UK’s incoming New Labour administration of 1997, whose zealous modernizers renamed the Department of National Heritage as the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and promoted, as its bailiwick, a paradigm of self-directed innovation in the arts and knowledge sectors of the economy.” Andrew Ross, Nice Work if you can get it – the mercurial career of creative industries policy. MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries. Editors: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter, Amsterdam. 2007. p.19 |