New Creative Community

by Goldbard, Arlene

• ISBN13: 9780976605454
• ISBN10: 0976605457
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: New Village Pr

Summary

An essential textbook about how communities develop themselves through collaborative creative arts.

Table of Contents

Forward	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(2)
Notes to the Reader	15	(2)
Understanding Community Cultural Development	17	(26)
Naming the Practice	20	(2)
Cultural Responses to Social Conditions	22	(21)
Global Proliferation of Mass Media	23	(4)
Mass Migrations	27	(2)
The Environment	29	(2)
Recognition of Cultural Minorities	31	(1)
``Culture Wars''	32	(5)
Development	37	(2)
Globalization and Privatization	39	(4)
Unifying Principles	43	(18)
Active participation in cultural life	44	(4)
Diversity is a social asset	48	(2)
All cultures are essentially equal	50	(2)
Culture is an effective crucible for social transformation	52	(2)
Cultural expression is a means of emancipation	54	(3)
Culture is a dynamic, protean whole	57	(1)
Artists have roles as agents of transformation	58	(3)
A Matrix of Practice	61	(24)
Program Models	61	(8)
Structured Learning	62	(2)
Dialogues	64	(1)
Documentation and Distribution	64	(1)
Claiming Public Space	65	(2)
Residencies	67	(2)
Themes and Methods	69	(8)
History	69	(2)
Identity	71	(2)
Cultural Infrastructure	73	(2)
Organizing	75	(2)
Boundaries and Intersections	77	(8)
An Exemplary Tale	85	(16)
The Basics	86	(1)
Action Research	87	(4)
Three Action Research Projects	88	(3)
Kick-off and Project Design	91	(3)
The Map Unfolds	94	(6)
Learning from Each Other	94	(2)
Engaging the Community	96	(4)
Celebration Time	100	(1)
Historical and Theoretical Underpinnings	101	(38)
An Activism of Ideas	102	(37)
The Social Integration of the Artist	102	(6)
The Settlement House Movement	108	(1)
Popular Front and Class Consciousness	109	(2)
The New Deal	111	(2)
Arts Extension	113	(2)
Civil Rights and Identity Politics	115	(2)
Liberating Education and Theater	117	(3)
Culture and Development	120	(3)
CETA and Public Service Employment	123	(2)
People's History and Anthropology	125	(2)
Cultural Democracy and Cultural Exchange	127	(6)
Spirituality	133	(6)
Theory from Practice: Elements of a Theory of Community Cultural Development	139	(24)
Definitions	140	(2)
Core Purposes	142	(2)
Response to Conditions	144	(2)
Conflict	146	(1)
Artist's Role	147	(1)
Arts Media and Approaches	148	(1)
Process versus Product	148	(1)
Expression versus Imposition	149	(1)
Responsibility for Participants	150	(1)
Legal Contract versus Moral Contract	151	(1)
Material Support	152	(2)
Indicators of Success	154	(2)
Training	156	(2)
Professionalization	158	(5)
The State of the Field	163	(26)
The Role of Funding	163	(4)
From Generation to Generation	167	(5)
The New Hybridity	172	(8)
viBE Theater	172	(3)
Project Row Houses	175	(2)
Holler to the Hood	177	(3)
Glimpses of the Global Field	180	(6)
More about Money	186	(3)
The Field's Developmental Needs	189	(34)
Public Policy and Support	189	(12)
The Scope of Cultural Policy	192	(4)
The Policy Climate for Community Cultural Development	196	(5)
Material Support	201	(8)
Suggestions for Material Support	206	(3)
Internal Infrastructure and Exchange	209	(5)
Suggestions for Internal Infrastructure and Exchange	213	(1)
Training	214	(4)
Suggestions for Training	216	(2)
Public Awareness	218	(5)
Suggestions to Expand Public Awareness	220	(3)
Planning for Community Cultural Development	223	(14)
Imagine This	224	(2)
Cultural Planning and Cultural Citizenship	226	(2)
The Basis for Cultural Planning	228	(9)
Aims and Indicators	229	(4)
Bringing It All Back Home	233	(4)
CONCLUSION: TIME TO RISE AND SHINE	237	(4)
GLOSSARY: COMMUNITY CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT	241	(6)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: COMMUNITY CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT	247	(12)
Adult Education	247	(1)
Critical Pedagogy	247	(1)
Cultural Policy and Cultural Development	248	(3)
Intergenerational Cultural Projects	251	(1)
Oral History	252	(1)
Popular Theater and Other Performance	253	(1)
The New Deal and Antecedents	254	(1)
Other Community Arts	255	(4)
Author and Approach	259	(2)
Acknowledgements	261	(2)
Index	263