Playing for Change - Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development (Paperback, New edition)

Playing for Change - performing for money and for social justice - introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development agents. Challenging the assumption that acculturation into a ruling ideology of state development is necessary, this book presents a version of CLD that locates development in the production of subjectivities. The author argues that A-CLD is as concerned with the autonomous collective and the individual as it is with establishing community infrastructure. As a result, a radical new theory is proposed to explain aesthetics within arts movements, beginning not by normalizing music cultures within global capitalism, but by identifying the creation of experimental assemblages as locations of cultural resistance. This book offers a new vocabulary of cultural production to provide a critical language for a theory of anti-capitalist subjectivity and for a new type of cultural worker involved with A-CLD. Drawing from a four-year study of thirteen music festivals, Playing for Change forwards A-CLD as a locally situated, joyful, and creative resistance to the globalizing forces of neoliberalism.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Counterpoints, 475
Release date:	June 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Michael B MacDonald
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	163
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-2970-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Behavioural theory (Behaviourism) Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of those with special educational needs > Teaching of physically disabled persons Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-2970-1
Barcode:	9781433129704

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!