num_pages: 268
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 .
language: English
title: New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development
titlecomplete: New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development
genres: Art
ratings_count: 58
publisher: New Village Press