Arts, Culture and Community Development - Paperback

by Nilanjana Premaratna (Contribution by), Jennifer Beth Spiegel (Contribution by), Fiona Whelan (Contribution by)

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.

Author Biography

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.