Music as Agency: New book about Artistic Citizenship
'Music as Agency: Diversities of Perspectives on Artistic Citizenship' is a new international research antology that focuses on the concept, application, interpretation and manifestation of Artistic Citizenship in diverse contexts.
With a focus on music, the book targets musicians, scholars, educators and enthusiasts keen on gaining a deeper understanding of how music and musicking can influence human interactions towards social integration, trust, cultural awareness and intercultural understanding.
The key concepts that the book tackles are: Cultural experience, artistic practice, musical identities, equity, democracy, community, activism, resistance and empathy.
Maria Westvall, professor at Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) and director of CreArC (Copenhagen Centre for Research in Artistic Citizenship), has co-edited the antology, published by Routledge, with Emily Achieng’ Akuno. In giving an overview of aspects of the compound concept of artistic citizenship, Akuno and Westvall present the outcome of research and interrogation of practice by a global network of educator-researchers from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.
The book articulates notions of artistic citizenship, coming up with the term artizenship as a derivative of the composite term. It further explains and analyses practical ways of perceiving and relating to art spaces, art practices and arts objects towards belonging, being and becoming in a global space that is disparate, polarised and often alienating, and thus responding to issues such as social justice, identity, participation and inclusion.
In addition to Maria Westvall, RMC researcher Kim Boeskov contributes with an essay - and principal Henrik Sveidahl with the foreword.
