Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art

Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction, by Alison Jeffers (University of Manchester, UK) -- Part 1: The British Community Arts Movement 1968-1986 -- 1. Introduction by Alison Jeffers -- 2. Community Arts - a Forty Year Apprenticeship: A view from England, by Gerri Moriarty (artist) -- 3. Craigmillar Festival, the Scottish Community Arts Movement of the 1970s and 1980s and its impact: A view from Scotland, by Andrew Crummy (artist) -- 4. The Pioneers and the Welsh Community Arts Movement: A view from Wales, by Nick Clements (artist) -- 5. The Ground of Convinced action: A view from Northern Ireland, by Gerri Moriarty Part 2: Praxis and Pragmatism: The legacies of the Community Arts Movement -- 6. Introduction by Alison Jeffers -- 7. Memories, Dreams, Reflections: Community Arts as Cultural Policy: the 1970s, by Oliver Bennett (University of Warwick, UK) -- 8. Training and Education for Artists: The impact of ideas in the 1970s and 1980s on the training of artists today, by Mark Webster and Janet Hetherington (Staffordshire University, UK) -- 9. From Community Arts to the Socially Engaged Arts Commission, by Sophie Hope (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) -- 10. Cultural Democracy, Developing Technologies and Dividuality, by Owen Kelly (Arcada University, Finland) -- 11. Conclusion, by Alison Jeffers and Gerri Moriarty -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index