CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

1.1 Theme and Relevance

1.2 Research Questions and Focus

1.3 Thesis Statement and Research Strategy

1.4 Case Selection

1.5 Chapter Organization

2. Cultural Political Economy and Empirical Research

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Cultural Studies and Critique

2.3 Critical Realism and Empirical Research

2.4 From Disciplinary Deconstruction to Transdisciplinarity

2.5 Methods and Data Collection

2.6 Conclusion

3. Accumulation, Regulation, Networks

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Accumulation and Regulation

3.3 Networks

3.4 Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Emergence

3.5 Cities and Networks

3.6 Conclusion

4. Location

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Creative Cluster Policies

4.3 Music Clusters

4.4 Cluster Exclusions

4.5 Conclusion

5. Communication

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Urban Textures

5.3 Strategic Selectivity

5.4 Creative Industries Policies

5.5 Variety and the Problem of Retention

5.6 Conclusion

6. Labor

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Policy Discourses

6.3 The Institutional Logic of Entrepreneurialism

6.4 Free Labor

6.5 Questioning the Real Subsumption Thesis

6.6 Conclusion

7. Concluding Comments

7.1 Research Questions Revisited

7.2 Further Research Directions

References