David J. Elliott is Professor of Music and Music Education at New York University. He is the author of Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education, editor of Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues, founder and editor of the International Journal of Community Music, and an award-winning composer/arranger with works published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Marissa Silverman is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Music Education at the John J. Cali School of Music of Montclair State University. A Fulbright Scholar, her research interests include urban music education, music and social justice, interdisciplinary education, community music, and topics in the philosophy of music and music education.

Wayne Bowman's primary research interests involve philosophy of music and the philosophical exploration of issues in music education. His work is extensively informed by pragmatism, by critical theory, and by conceptions of music and music education as social practices. He is particularly concerned with music's sociopolitical power and with ethically informed understandings of musical practice.

• Contents


• Contributors


• I. Foundational Considerations


• 1. Artistic citizenship: Introduction, aims, and overview by David J. Elliott, Marissa Silverman, and Wayne Bowman


• 2. Theatre and citizenship: Public engagement; political landscapes by David Wiles


• 3. New York re-imagined: Artists, arts organizations, and the re-birth of a city by Mary Schmidt Campbell


• 4. Artistry, ethics, and citizenship by Wayne Bowman


• 5. Arts education as/for artistic citizenship by Marissa Silverman and David J. Elliott


• 6. The public good will not be curated by Ana Vujanovic


• II. Dance/Movement-based Arts


• 7. Movement potentials and civic engagement: An interview with Liz Lerman


• 8. Dance it, film it, share it: Exploring participatory dances and civic potential by Sangita Shresthova


• 9. Moving comfortably between continuity and disruption: Somatics and urban dance as embodied responses to civic responsibility by Naomi M. Jackson


• 10. Re/imagining artivism by Rodney Diverlus


• III. Media and Technology


• 11. Queer and trans people of color community arts collective: Ste-Émilie Skillshare by


• Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, and Coco Riot


• 12. Slow FAST Forward: Enacting digital art and civic opportunities by Jennifer Parker


• 13. Tactical citizenship: Straddling the line between community and contestation by Eric Kluitenberg


• 14. Ghostly testimonies: Reenactment and ethical responsibility in contemporary Israeli documentary cinema by Raz Yosef and Yaara Ozery


• IV. Music


• 15. Music, social change, and alternative forms of citizenship by Thomas Turino


• 16. Citizens or subjects? El Sistema in critical perspective by Geoffrey Baker


• 17. Arts-based service learning with Indigenous communities: Engendering artistic citizenship by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Gavin Carfoot


• 18. Alchemies of sanctioned value: Music, networks, law by Martin Scherzinger


• V. Poetry/Storytelling


• 19. The points are not the point, but do they still matter? A practitioner's take on spoken-word, slam poetry, and the responsibility of artists to engage their audiences by Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre


• 20. Poet as citizen in a contested nation: Rewriting the poetry of Soviet-occupied Afghanistan by Aria Fani


• 21. Songs of passage and sacrifice: Gabriella Ghermandi's stories in performance by Laura Dolp and Eveljn Ferraro


• VI. Theater


• 22. Applied theatre and citizenship in the Puerto Rican community: Artistic citizenship in practice by David T. Montgomery


• 23. Performing citizenship performance art and public happiness by Sibylle Peters


• 24. Valuing performance: purposes at play in participatory theatre practice by Nicola Shaughnessy


• VII. Visual Arts


• 25. A new letter named square: Artistic citizenship as visual art by Coco Guzman


• 26. Working all the time: Artistic citizenship in the 21st century by Diane Mullin


• 27. Image as ignorant schoolmaster: A lesson in democratic equality by Tyson Lewis


• Notes


• Author Index


• Subject Index