'Showbusiness of a serious kind': A cultural politics of the arts prize

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Street, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Booker prize; Cultural policy; Culture industry; Mercury music prize; Turner prize

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744607023     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443705057672     Document Type: Review

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