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This article examines cultural quota debates in the context of local music content provision in Australia and New Zealand. The commercial radio industries in both countries are examined for the different ways in which the local music industries attempt to negotiate changing perceptions of the ‘national’ in the shift from analogue to digital media environments. A call for new configurations of local media as cultural exception is made, given the profound shifts in global cultural trade and digital media spheres, where reliance upon older notions of cultural nationalism is less stable.

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globalization local content quota media industries music copyright music policy music radio

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Local priorities,industry realities: the music quota as cultural exceptionalism

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