英文摘要 |
Cities with global aspirations have increasingly recognized the need to accumulate cultural capital in the context of the global economy. As the political and cultural center of China, Beijing’s efforts to attain global city status have manifested in state-led cultural projects and policy discourses since the early 2000s. However, literature, in explaining the experience of post-socialist China, ignored the cultural-political-economic process in creative-space construction. This study adopts Beijing’s live music industry as its case study. This industry is interwoven with Beijing’s cultural infrastructure, production network, and culture consumers. This study attempts to identify the transformation of (1) the cultural, political, and economic process of ‘live music as political propaganda’ into ‘live music as a market commodity,’ (2) the networks and institutions through which cultural workers and resources are mobilized, and (3) the roles of the central and local governments in the industrialization process. Based on findings from this empirical study, a four-fold strategy, a people-oriented strategy, a product-oriented strategy, a place-oriented strategy, and a propaganda-oriented strategy, by which cities with global aspirations seek to develop particular forms of cultural capital, is identified. |