Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities

ISBN-13: 9780190878283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str.

Kathleen Van Buren; Brian Shrag

Opis

Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities provides a ground-breaking model for arts advocacy. Aimed at a wide audience including educators, scholars, and project leaders, the Guide presents an in-depth approach to researching community artistic practices and to developing arts-based projects that address locally-defined needs.

Recenzje

Building on a growing body of works and practices that (re)assert the centrality of community in living arts, Schrag and Van Buren pull together an impressive array of thoughts and experiences. The result is an invaluable tool for researchers and facilitators to carefully design, execute and evaluate arts projects in the global complexities of 21st century communities.

O autorze

Brian Schrag is SIL International's Ethnomusicology and Arts Coordinator, and founder of the Center for Excellence in World Arts (Dallas), a graduate program in applied ethnoarts. He has engaged in sustained arts research and development in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon, and holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology (UCLA), an M.A. in Intercultural Studies (Wheaton, IL), and a B.S. in Cognitive Sciences (Brown University). Brian actively promotes artistic creativity for healing and education in communities affected by Huntington's Disease. Kathleen J. Van Buren is an ethnomusicologist with special interests in medical and applied ethnomusicology, arts and social change, and musics of Africa. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow for the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield, where she previously worked as lecturer for ten years (2006-2016). She holds an MA and PhD from the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in English and self-designed BM in ethnomusicology from Lawrence University and Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin.