The Arts, Culture and Exclusion

ISBN-13: 9783639187694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 348 str.

Paul Clements

Opis

With specific reference to the cultural policy set out by New Labour in the UK, this research explores the individual and social function of the arts and the extent to which they are agents of inclusion. The arts, an important aspect even driver of culture can be perceived as exclusive with taste reflecting socio-economic concerns which contradicts this function. Such a paradox requires an investigation into the complex and sometimes contradictory relationship between cultural and social inclusion and exclusion, as well as the methods used of evaluating impact

O autorze

Paul is a published author and has worked with excluded constituencies in a cultural capacity for over 20 years. He lectures at Goldsmiths College, University of London; for the Open University and as a visiting lecturer at London Metropolitan University.