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Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities provides a ground-breaking model for arts advocacy. Aimed at a wide audience including educators, scholars, and project leaders, the Guide presents an in-depth approach to researching community artistic practices and to developing arts-based projects that address locally-defined needs.
Brian Schrag is SIL International's Ethnomusicology and Arts Coordinator, and founder of the Center for Excellence in World Arts (Dallas), a graduate program in applied ethnoarts. He has engaged in sustained arts research and development in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon, and holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology (UCLA), an M.A. in Intercultural Studies (Wheaton, IL), and a B.S. in Cognitive Sciences (Brown University). Brian actively promotes artistic creativity for healing and education in communities affected by Huntington's Disease. Kathleen J. Van Buren is an ethnomusicologist with special interests in medical and applied ethnomusicology, arts and social change, and musics of Africa. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow for the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield, where she previously worked as lecturer for ten years (2006-2016). She holds an MA and PhD from the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in English and self-designed BM in ethnomusicology from Lawrence University and Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Show moreMake Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities provides a ground-breaking model for arts advocacy. Aimed at a wide audience including educators, scholars, and project leaders, the Guide presents an in-depth approach to researching community artistic practices and to developing arts-based projects that address locally-defined needs.
Brian Schrag is SIL International's Ethnomusicology and Arts Coordinator, and founder of the Center for Excellence in World Arts (Dallas), a graduate program in applied ethnoarts. He has engaged in sustained arts research and development in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon, and holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology (UCLA), an M.A. in Intercultural Studies (Wheaton, IL), and a B.S. in Cognitive Sciences (Brown University). Brian actively promotes artistic creativity for healing and education in communities affected by Huntington's Disease. Kathleen J. Van Buren is an ethnomusicologist with special interests in medical and applied ethnomusicology, arts and social change, and musics of Africa. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow for the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield, where she previously worked as lecturer for ten years (2006-2016). She holds an MA and PhD from the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in English and self-designed BM in ethnomusicology from Lawrence University and Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Preface
About the companion website
Who Should Use this Guide?
Foundations
Steps
Step 1: Meet a Community and Its Arts
Step 2: Specify Goals for a Better Life
Step 3: Connect Goals to Genres
Step 4: Analyze Genres and Events
---Part A: Describe the Event and Its Genre(s) as a Whole
---Part B: Explore the Event's Genre(s) through Artistic Domain
Categories
-------Music in an Event
-------Drama in an Event
-------Dance in an Event
-------Oral Verbal Arts in an Event
-------Visual Arts in an Event
---Part C: Relate the Event's Genre(s) to Its Broader Cultural
Context
Step 5: Spark Creativity
Step 6: Improve Results
Step 7: Celebrate and Integrate for Continuity
Closing Matter
Closing 1: References
Closing 2: Glossary
Closing 3: Sample Research Documents
Closing 4: Sample Community Arts Profile (CAP) Outline
Closing 5: Index of Artistic Domain Research Activities
Closing 6: Index of Sample Sparking Activities
Closing 7: Suggestions for Guide Users
Closing 8: Measuring Artistic Genre Vitality
Closing 9: Quick Reference
Brian Schrag is SIL International's Ethnomusicology and Arts
Coordinator, and founder of the Center for Excellence in World Arts
(Dallas), a graduate program in applied ethnoarts. He has engaged
in sustained arts research and development in the Democratic
Republic of Congo and Cameroon, and holds a Ph.D. in
Ethnomusicology (UCLA), an M.A. in Intercultural Studies (Wheaton,
IL), and a B.S. in Cognitive Sciences (Brown University). Brian
actively
promotes artistic creativity for healing and education in
communities affected by Huntington's Disease.
Kathleen J. Van Buren is an ethnomusicologist with special
interests in medical and applied ethnomusicology, arts and social
change, and musics of Africa. She is currently Honorary Research
Fellow for the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield,
where she previously worked as lecturer for ten years (2006-2016).
She holds an MA and PhD from the Department of Ethnomusicology at
the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in English and
self-designed BM in
ethnomusicology from Lawrence University and Conservatory of Music
in Appleton, Wisconsin.
"In clear language and laudable book structure, Van Buren and
Schrag propose a 7-step collaborative method for working with
communities to address their own perceived needs. This book would
be useful for all kinds of community workers, students, and
professionals and the results far more satisfactory than top-down
community projects." -- Anthony Seeger, Distinguished Professor of
Ethnomusicology, Emeritus, UCLA
"Building on a growing body of works and practices that (re)assert
the centrality of community in living arts, Schrag and Van Buren
pull together an impressive array of thoughts and experiences. The
result is an invaluable tool for researchers and facilitators to
carefully design, execute and evaluate arts projects in the global
complexities of 21st century communities." -- Huib Schippers,
Director/Curator Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Institution
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