Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas

by Max O. Stephenson Jr. (Editor), Scott Tate (Editor)

Overview

Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas addresses the growing number of communities adopting arts and culture-based development methods to influence social change. Providing community workers and planners with strategies to develop arts policy that enriches communities and their residents, this collection critically examines the central tensions and complexities in arts policy, paying attention to issues of gentrification and stratification.

Including a variety of case studies from across the United States and Canada, these success stories and best practice approaches across many media present strategies to design appropriate policy for unique populations.

Edited by Max Stephenson, Jr. and A. Scott Tate of Virginia Tech, Arts and Community Change presents 10 chapters from artistic and community leaders; essential reading for students and practitioners in economic development and arts management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138024335
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/21/2015
Series:	Community Development Research and Practice Series
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Max Stephenson, Jr. is Professor of Public and International Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech, USA, and Director of the Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance. His current research and teaching interests include the arts and community change processes, nongovernmental organizations and international development and peacebuilding.

A. Scott Tate is an educator and community development practitioner. He currently serves as a senior economic development specialist in the Office of Economic Development at Virginia Tech, USA. His community work includes directing or co-directing the Engaging Communities and Campuses national demonstration project and the Virginia Entrepreneur Express Workshop Series.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Making Beauty, Making Meaning, Making Community Chapter 2: Rivers and Bridges: Theater in Regional Planning Chapter 3: One New York Rising Together? Arts and Culture in Neighborhood Ecosystems Chapter 4: Sustaining Emergent Culture in Montreal’s Entertainment District Chapter 5: Digital Storytelling in Appalachia: Gathering and Sharing Community Voices and Values Chapter 6: Shaping the Artful City: A Case Study of Urban Economic Reinvention Chapter 7: Community Cultural Development as a Site of Joy, Struggle, and Transformation Chapter 8: A Dialogue on Dance and Community Practice Chapter 9: Assessing Arts-based Social Change Endeavors: Controversies and Complexities Chapter 10: Theater as a Tool for Building Peace and Justice: DAH Teatar and Bond Street Theatre