Genres and inequality in the creative industries

Genres organize and facilitate cultural, creative media production consumption but are rarely central categories in extant research on industries. With this editorial article, we aim to reassert, reassess revisit the salience of genres for understanding inequalities cultural We argue that genres, as classificatory devices, structure order a gendered racialized division labour occupational practice. sanction what is not aesthetically ethically appropriate do think within specific textual and, hence also, genre-specific cultures. draw boundaries, shaping normalizing professional values norms underpin unequal patterns access, distinction career advancement occupations. Cultural producers, turn, compelled forge genre identities at same time constantly having negotiate their gender racial fitness work prosper production. The contributions special issue elucidate, through plethora methodological theoretical approaches, links between persisting across book, screen music