Regenerating Regional Culture: A Study of the International Book Town Movement b

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This book explores the significance of the international book town movement and its impact on contemporary society. It examines how book towns have emerged and how their culture and unique characteristics help to explain a steadily growing phenomenon that has enabled peripheral communities around the world to reclaim their economic futures and impact on the cultural sphere as increasingly powerful sites and sources of creativity. Regenerating Regional Culture assesses why, at a time when the book industry is experiencing a profound transformation, book towns are proliferating in Europe and across the globe. It acknowledges the role of the book as a catalyst for this significant cultural activity and development. The book is shown to be a unique and pivotal item of cultural consumption, a remarkable artefact and, more than ever before, a springboard for contemporary cultural debate. This work investigates how the reanimation of these 'down-on-their-luck' towns is attracting, through a combination of nostalgia, history and cultural heritage, a growing middle class cohort who seek both intellectual stimulation and opportunities for serious leisure and wellbeing.This book will prove to be a useful resource for understanding the impacts of book towns on art, culture and society while also offering insightful research for those involved in existing or future development of book towns and other community cultural projects.

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This book explores the significance of the international book town movement and its impact on contemporary society. It examines how book towns have emerged and how their culture and unique characteristics help to explain a steadily growing phenomenon that has enabled peripheral communities around the world to reclaim their economic futures and impact on the cultural sphere as increasingly powerful sites and sources of creativity. Regenerating Regional Culture assesses why, at a time when the book industry is experiencing a profound transformation, book towns are proliferating in Europe and across the globe. It acknowledges the role of the book as a catalyst for this significant cultural activity and development. The book is shown to be a unique and pivotal item of cultural consumption, a remarkable artefact and, more than ever before, a springboard for contemporary cultural debate. This work investigates how the reanimation of these 'down-on-their-luck' towns is attracting, through a combination of nostalgia, history and cultural heritage, a growing middle class cohort who seek both intellectual stimulation and opportunities for serious leisure and wellbeing. This book will prove to be a useful resource for understanding the impacts of book towns on art, culture and society while also offering insightful research for those involved in existing or future development of book towns and other community cultural projects.

Author Biography

Jane Frank is Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia with research interests in the fields of cultural studies, cultural sociology, and book and print culture. 

Table of Contents

1. Introduction .- 2. Book Towns: Expanding Literary Connections .- 3. Hay-on-Wye: 'A Town of Travellers Who Stopped' .- 4. Slow Books: Book Towns as Third Places .- 5. Edge-of-the-map Locations: Outposts of Sustainable Culture .- 6. Sacred Objects and Magic Encyclopaedias: Books in Book Towns .- 7. Occasional Errata: Book Towns that Fail or Falter .- 8. Book Towns: An Unfolding Story.

Feature

Locates book towns as places that simultaneously preserve past technologies while actively participating in contemporary global communications Identifies book shops in book towns as 'third places' where outsiders can make connections and feel like insiders, leading to meaningful experiences Demonstrates integrated and holistic ways of approaching rural and regional cultural development

Details ISBN3319650351 Author Jane Frank Language English ISBN-10 3319650351 ISBN-13 9783319650357 Format Hardcover Edition 1st Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Subtitle A Study of the International Book Town Movement Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Year 2017 Pages 285 DEWEY 002 Publication Date 2017-12-21 Short Title Regenerating Regional Culture UK Release Date 2017-12-21 Illustrations 9 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XXXVII, 285 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color. Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2018 Series Sociology of the Arts Alternative 9783319879321 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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