COMN 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 6: Cultural Policy, Canada Council, Canadian Art

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 1000
• Professor: David Skinner

Document Summary

Cultural policy: can be understood as a contained term that refers to the portfolio of legal, regulatory, and technical instruments that structure and support artistic activities from broadcasting to ballet. Canada needs cultural policies toccv protect its citizens from overexposure to american culture and to ensure canada"s cultural sovereignty. 4 reasons for the state to intervene in the cultural realm: geographic reasons it is useful to think of geographic rationales for cultural policy through two opposing ideas distance and proximity . Canada has tremendous size and its diverse. It is also regionally diverse with geographical differences serving as physical markers that point to the cultural and sociopolitical diversity that is found in the many folds of its populations. Cultural policies are necessary to overcome distances and differences to ensure exchange as well as access to a range of cultural works, whether one is in urban, rural, or northern settings.