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‘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

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