Culture, democracy and the right to make art : the British community arts movement / edited by Alison Jeffers and Gerri Moriarty.
Published / Created:
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Physical Description:
xiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Part 1: The Community Arts Movement : Experimentation and Growth. The Community Arts Movement 1968-1986 / Alison Jeffers ; Community Arts, a Forty Year Apprenticeship : A View from England / Gerri Moriarty ; Craigmillar Festival, the Scottish Community Arts Movement of the 1970s and 1980s and its Impact : A View from Scotland / Andrew Crummy ; The Pioneers and the Welsh Community Arts Movement : A View from Wales / Nick Clements ; Grown from Shattered Glass : A View from Northern Ireland / Gerri Moriarty -- Part 2: Cultural Democracy : Practices and Politics. Then and Now : Reflections on the Influence of the Community Arts Movement on Contemporary Community and Participatory Arts / Alison Jeffers ; Memories, Dreams, Reflections : Community Arts as Cultural Policy, the 1970s / Oliver Bennett ; From Handbooks to Live Labs : The Impact of Ideas in the 1970s and 1980s on the Training and Education of Community Artists Today / Janet Hetherington and Mark Webster -- From Community Arts to the Socially Engaged Arts Commission / Sophie Hope -- Cultural Democracy : Developing Technologies and Dividuality / Owen Kelly -- Conclusion : Opening a New Space for Cultural Politics / Alison Jeffers and Gerri Moriarty.
Subject Terms:
Community arts projects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. | Artists and community -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. | PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. | PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism. | Artists and community. | Community arts projects. | Great Britain.