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Katja Lindqvist.

Katja Lindqvist

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Katja Lindqvist.

Public funding for culture in Sweden

Author

  • Katja Lindqvist

Editor

  • Sakarias Sokka

Summary, in 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 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.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2022

Language

Swedish

Pages

113-132

Publication/Series

Cultural policy in the Nordic welfare states : Aims and functions of public funding for culture

Volume

Nord 2022:005

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Nordic Council of Ministers

Topic

  • Business Administration
  • Public Administration Studies

Keywords

  • cultural policy
  • public expenditure
  • Sweden
  • welfare state
  • Cultural Partnership Model
  • cultural economics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-92-893-7218-3
  • ISBN: 978-92-893-7100-1