Las industrias culturales y creativas

Abstract

Concepts have a birthing moment and evolve, as do the way they are exported and distorted at times. Rethinking them, questioning their accepted approval, placing them back in their social context are good ways of beginning to analyse research in the field of Culture which is doubly significant: values of generating and transmitting values. Culture, Cultural Industries, Creative Industries…also form boundaries which have inevitably had an effect on social research, beacons for thinking which need to be unveiled in order to start assessing the radical specificity of this field of reality. From Cultural Industries, we will move towards Classical Culture in order to better understand both; their differences and similarities; their specific characteristics in respect to other human activity; and their special technological application. We will move onto the history of its evolution in the capitalist economy to globalisation and financialisation which considers, more radically than ever, the duality that exists between the economy and social, growth and diversity. Old and new terminological fashions such as Entertainment Industries or Creative Industries update and polarise these dichotomies, demonstrating the growing hegemony of the market at the dawn of the Digital Age. Its history, evolution and the debates on cultural policies show that these apparently theoretical dichotomies bring about strong practical implications