Public funding for culture in Sweden
(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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- author
- Lindqvist, Katja LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- 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
- 978-92-893-7218-3
- 978-92-893-7100-1
- DOI
- 10.6027/nord2022-005
- project
- Service Studies Culture
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- ab4c5c17-9449-4dad-a6f6-e70b836567a6
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- 2022-10-12 16:26:42
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- 2022-11-02 08:20:30
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