La produzione culturale in una società multiculturale : agenti sociali, pratiche e linguaggi

In the last ten years, studies on cultural production have dramatically increased in number and in the variety of issues embraced. The focus on production instead of consumption gives more opportunities to study the intertwined processes involving institutions, discourses, media, social agents, material culture and practices. This editorial introduces briefly the essays presented in this issue, which includes contributions analysing the cultural construction of a neighbourhood and the relative feeling of belonging, the cultural construction of the category of ‘music festival’ and the relative practices, a study on Italian radio dramas, and two essays focusing on as many specific fields of cultural production – literature and the arts. The distinctive quality of this monographic issue of LCM lies in its multidisciplinary approach and in the complementarity of the articles it features.