New Creative Community by Arlene Goldbard

New Village Press
New Creative Community by Arlene Goldbard
New Creative Community by Arlene Goldbard
Product Specifications
  • Title: New Creative Community by Arlene Goldbard
  • Author: Arlene Goldbard
  • Publisher: New Village Press
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • The arts general issues
  • No. of pages: 268
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 154 x 228 x 18

Product Description

An inspiring foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development.

An inspiring foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development. Through personal stories rousing accounts detailed observation and histories Arlene Goldbard describes how communities express and develop themselves via the creative arts. This comprehensive photographically-illustrated book which covers community-based arts such as theater grounded in oral history and murals celebrating cultural heritage will appeal to the curious non-specialist reader as well as the practitioner and student.

Author Arlene Goldbard is one of the best-known authors on community cultural development. Her seminal books and essays are widely read in the US and other English-speaking countries -- among them Community Culture and Globalization and this book's antecedent Creative Community.