‘The term cultural industries bas been cit-
culating in cultural analysis and policy for
many years and has more recently been
Joined by another version ofthe same phrase:
creative industries. There is understandable
confusion about the relationships between
the two torms, and an objective of this
chapter is to reduce bewilderment in this
area To address such questions is more
than just an exercise in semantics, however
The two phrases emerge from quite different
theoretical lineages and policy contexts. And,
for all the considerable dificulties of scope
and definition that they raise, it is clear
that both concepts refer to a domain that
no serious cultural analysis can afford to
‘ignore: how cultural goods are produced
and disseminated in modern economies and
societies. A second objective of this chapter is
[inked to the importance ofthat domain. aim
to assess how various theoretical traditions
associated with these terms understand the
relations hetveeen culture and economy, and
between meaning and production. My main