Artistic Citizenship: Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis

by David Elliott (Editor), Marissa Silverman (Editor), Wayne Bowman (Editor)

Overview

This first-of-its-kind compendium unites perspectives from artists, scholars, arts educators, policymakers, and activists to investigate the complex system of values surrounding artistic-educational endeavors. Addressing a range of artistic domains-including music, dance, theater, visual arts, film, and poetry-contributors explore and critique the conventions that govern our interactions with these practices. Artistic Citizenship focuses on the social responsibilities and functions of amateur and professional artists and examines ethical issues that are conventionally dismissed in discourses on these topics. The questions this book addresses include: How does the concept of citizenship relate to the arts? What sociocultural, political, environmental, and gendered "goods" can artistic engagements create for people worldwide? Do particular artistic endeavors have distinctive potentials for nurturing artistic citizenship? What are the most effective strategies in the arts to institute change and/or resist local, national, and world problems? What obligations do artists and consumers of art have to facilitate relationships between the arts and citizenship? How can artistic activities contribute to the eradication of adverse 'ism's?

A substantial accompanying website features video clips of "artivism" in action, videotaped interviews with scholars and practitioners working in a variety of spaces and places, a blog, and supplementary resources about existing and emerging initiatives. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Artistic Citizenship is an essential text for artists, scholars, policymakers, educators, and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199393756
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/04/2016
Pages:	614
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

David J. Elliott is Professor of Music and Music Education at New York University. He is the author of Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education, editor of Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues, founder and editor of the International Journal of Community Music, and an award-winning composer/arranger with works published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Marissa Silverman is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Music Education at the John J. Cali School of Music of Montclair State University. A Fulbright Scholar, her research interests include urban music education, music and social justice, interdisciplinary education, community music, and topics in the philosophy of music and music education.

Wayne Bowman's primary research interests involve philosophy of music and the philosophical exploration of issues in music education. His work is extensively informed by pragmatism, by critical theory, and by conceptions of music and music education as social practices. He is particularly concerned with music's sociopolitical power and with ethically informed understandings of musical practice.

Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
PART I Foundational Considerations
1. Artistic Citizenship: Introduction, Aims, and Overview by David J. Elliott, Marissa Silverman, and Wayne Bowman

2. Art and Citizenship: The History of a Divorce by David Wiles

3. New York Reimagined: Artists, Arts Organizations, and the Rebirth of a City by Mary Schmidt Campbell

4. Artistry, Ethics, and Citizenship by Wayne Bowman

5. Arts Education as/ for Artistic Citizenship by Marissa Silverman and David J. Elliott

6. Art as a Bad Public Good by Ana Vujanovi?

PART II Dance/ Movement- Based Arts
7. Movement Potentials and Civic Engagement: An Interview with Liz Lerman

8. Dance It, Film It, Share It: Exploring Participatory Dances and Civic Potential by Sangita Shresthova

9. Moving Comfortably Between Continuity and Disruption: Somatics and Urban Dance as Embodied Responses to Civic Responsibility by Naomi M. Jackson

10. Re/ imagining Artivism by Rodney Diverlus

PART III Media and Technology
11. Queer and Trans People of Color Community Arts Collective: Ste- Émilie Skillshare by Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, and Coco Riot

12. Slow FAST Forward: Enacting Digital Art and Civic Opportunities by Jennifer Parker

13. Tactical Citizenship: Straddling the Line Between Community and Contestation by Eric Kluitenberg

14. Ghostly Testimonies: Re- enactment and Ethical Responsibility in Contemporary Israeli Documentary Cinema by Raz Yosef and Yaara Ozery
PART IV Music
15. Music, Social Change, and Alternative Forms of Citizenship by Thomas Turino

16. Citizens or Subjects? El Sistema in Critical Perspective by Geoffrey Baker

17. Arts- Based Service Learning with Indigenous Communities: Engendering Artistic Citizenship by Brydie- Leigh Bartleet and Gavin Carfoot

18. Alchemies of Sanctioned Value: Music, Networks, Law by Martin Scherzinger

PART V Poetry/ Storytelling
19. The Points Are Not the Point, But Do They Still Matter? A Practitioner's Take on Spoken Word, Slam Poetry, and the Responsibility of Artists to Engage Their Audiences by Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre

20. Poet as Citizen in a Contested Nation: Rewriting the Poetry of Soviet- Occupied Afghanistan by Aria Fani

21. Songs of Passage and Sacrifice: Gabriella Ghermandi's Stories in Performance by Laura Dolp and Eveljn Ferraro

PART VI Theater
22. Applied Theater and Citizenship in the Puerto Rican Community: Artistic Citizenship in Practice by David T. Montgomery

23. Performing Citizenship: Performance Art and Public Happiness by Sibylle Peters

24. Valuing Performance: Purposes at Play in Participatory Theater Practice by Nicola Shaughnessy

PART VII Visual Arts
25. A New Letter Named Square by Coco Guzman

26. Working All the Time: Artistic Citizenship in the 21st Century by Diane Mullin

27. Image as Ignorant Schoolmaster: A Lesson in Democratic Equality by Tyson Lewis

Notes
Author Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

"A feast of topics, lenses, and voices. Vibrant and compelling!"—Liora Bresler, College of Education, University of Illinois, Champaign

"It is commonplace to say that art moves us, but this is usually meant in terms of the individual and their internal, affective response. The editors and contributors of Artistic Citizenship offer another perspective: describing and theorizing how, in myriad ways, art can-and does-move us collectively and effect us socially. I can't think of a better primer for artists, activists, educators, and students who want to make art work in the world."—Stephen Duncombe, Co-Director, Center for Artistic Activism and Professor of Media and Culture, New York University

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