Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art : The British Community Arts Movement
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 50469484
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN
- 9781474258357
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC: Drama
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This co-edited book is the first to explore the British Community Arts Movement which flourished between the late 1960s and late 1980s. Jeffers and Moriarty delineate specific characteristics which were common to community arts, including a left-leaning interpretation of art and political history, a frustration with the institutionalization of the arts, and a strong commitment to what became known as cultural democracy. The book is divided into two parts with the first, ‘The Community Arts Movement: experimentation and growth’, being given over to regionally-inflected accounts by four artists of the ways in which the Community Arts Movement developed in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The second part, ‘Cultural Democracy: practices and politics’, focuses on reflections from artists and academics on the impact of community arts on contemporary socially engaged arts and the ways in which cultural democracy has developed over the last fifty years. Moriarty and Jeffers co-wrote the conclusion and the Introduction to the book and two chapters which introduce each section were written by Jeffers (pp.35-64 and pp.133-160). Further information: The Paul Hamlyn Foundation contributed to a research event in which artists from the 1970s and young socially engaged artists worked together with community groups which is documented here - https://vimeo.com/146771673. The book is Gold Open Access
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- Non-English
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