Artistic Citizenship

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.

• ContentsContributorsPART 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 Technology11. 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 NotesAuthor IndexSubject Index

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