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Book SynopsisPlaying for Change performing for money and for social justice introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development agents. Challenging the assumption that acculturation into a ruling ideology of state development is necessary, this book presents a version of CLD that locates development in the production of subjectivities. The author argues that A-CLD is as concerned with the autonomous collective and the individual as it is with establishing community infrastructure. As a result, a radical new theory is proposed to explain aesthetics within arts movements, beginning not by normalizing music cultures within global capitalism, but by identifying the creation of experimental assemblages as locations of cultural resistance. This book offers a new vocabulary of cultural production to provide a critical language for a theory of anti-cap
Table of ContentsContents: Arts-Based Community Learning and Development as Radical Love – Refolkus: Arts-Based Community Learning and Development – Foucauldian Genealogy of Folk as the People and Aesthetic Multitude – A-CLD: Production of Subjectivities in the Festival-Machine – A-CLD: Production of Subjectivities in the Carnival-Machine – Critical Pedagogy of Aesthetic Systems – Video Recorded Interviews.
