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Public funding for culture in Sweden

Lindqvist, Katja LU (2022) Nord 2022:005. p.113-132
Abstract (Swedish)
In 1974, Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest with ABBA’s song Waterloo. ABBA is still one of the best-known names in Swedish pop, alongside others such as Max Martin and Avicii. The same year saw the birth of Swedish cultural policy as a coherent and distinct national policy area, explicitly supporting inhabitants’ access to culture beyond the commercial market. Sweden is still one of the primary music-exporting countries of the world, a position many claim to be the result of extensive public support for democratically-accessible music and cultural welfare society (Swedish Institute, 2017). Government support to culture, or certain kinds of culture, can be and has been questioned. This chapter will take a closer look at the funding of... (More)
In 1974, Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest with ABBA’s song Waterloo. ABBA is still one of the best-known names in Swedish pop, alongside others such as Max Martin and Avicii. The same year saw the birth of Swedish cultural policy as a coherent and distinct national policy area, explicitly supporting inhabitants’ access to culture beyond the commercial market. Sweden is still one of the primary music-exporting countries of the world, a position many claim to be the result of extensive public support for democratically-accessible music and cultural welfare society (Swedish Institute, 2017). Government support to culture, or certain kinds of culture, can be and has been questioned. This chapter will take a closer look at the funding of culture in Sweden, in particular public funding, and at arguments for public funding of culture. As Sweden is commonly described as a welfare country, the political concept of welfare in relation to cultural policy will also be discussed. The article finds that both public and private funding of culture has a solid basis in Sweden, but that general welfare structures in place paradoxically make accessing welfare difficult for some groups of professionals in the field of culture. (Less)
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cultural policy, public expenditure, Sweden, welfare state, Cultural Partnership Model, cultural economics
host publication
Cultural policy in the Nordic welfare states : Aims and functions of public funding for culture - Aims and functions of public funding for culture
editor
Sokka, Sakarias
volume
Nord 2022:005
pages
113 - 132
publisher
Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN
978-92-893-7100-1
978-92-893-7218-3
DOI
10.6027/nord2022-005
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Service Studies Culture
language
Swedish
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yes
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  author       = {{Lindqvist, Katja}},
  booktitle    = {{Cultural policy in the Nordic welfare states : Aims and functions of public funding for culture}},
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  keywords     = {{cultural policy; public expenditure; Sweden; welfare state; Cultural Partnership Model; cultural economics}},
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  pages        = {{113--132}},
  publisher    = {{Nordic Council of Ministers}},
  title        = {{Public funding for culture in Sweden}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.6027/nord2022-005}},
  doi          = {{10.6027/nord2022-005}},
  volume       = {{Nord 2022:005}},
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