The Community Cultural Development Field
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From Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard’s Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, a book commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2001. The book traces the history, methods, values and theories of community cultural-development practice as a response to destructive social forces.
From Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard’s Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, a book commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2001. The book traces the history, methods, values and theories of community cultural-development practice as a response to destructive social forces. In particular, it considers work done through the Rockefeller program Partnerships Affirming Community Transformation (PACT).
In this essay, these two top consultants define "community arts," "community animation" and "cultural work," then look at cultural responses to social conditions, global proliferation of mass media, mass migrations, recognition of cultural minorities and the effects of globalization. The book can be ordered free from the publication section of the Rockefeller Web site. — Community Arts Network
Read the essay here.