Expressive Lives

August is a good time to catch-up on some of those reports that have been languishing in the reading tray.  I’ve been dipping into Expressive Lives, a Demos collection of essays exploring the changing nature of cultural engagement. In his essay, David Lammy MP, argues that technological and social changes are making the ‘expressive life’ [...]

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High culture and hip hop

The launch of the Mayor of London’s new cultural strategy at the end of November was widely reported, in part because of Boris Johnson’s comment that art chiefs should stop patronising young people by targeting them with hip-hop and movies rather than high culture. Elsewhere on this community of practice colleagues have pointed to the [...]

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