Arts, Culture and Community Development - (Rethinking Community Development) by Rosie R Meade & Mae Shaw (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Drawing on international examples, this book interrogates the relationship between the arts, culture and community development. Contributors from six continents, reimagine community development as they consider how aesthetic arts contribute to processes of peacebuilding, youth empowerment, participatory planning and environmental regeneration.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to communities? Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America, China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book explores the relationship between the arts, culture and community development. Academics and practitioners from six continents discuss how diverse communities understand, re-imagine or seek to change personal, cultural, social, economic or political conditions while using the arts as their means and spaces of engagement. Investigating the theory and practice of 'cultural democracy', this book explores a range of aesthetic forms including song, music, muralism, theatre, dance, and circus arts.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Rosie R. Meade is Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at the University College Cork, Ireland. Mae Shaw is Honorary Fellow in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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