DEBORAH BRADLEY
Deborah Bradley retired from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010,, returning to teach at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and Emmanuel College from 2010-2014. Her teaching and research were in the areas of World Music Education (Choral and General Music), and Anti-Racism Education. Bradley founded the Mississauga Festival Youth Choir in 1997, and has been a life-long church musician. She has published on social justice and music education in many noted journals and is the author of several book chapters. Bradley continues her work in anti-oppression education as an External Dissertation Supervisor for Boston University. She has been a member of MayDay Group since 1996, and in January 2016, was appointed Editor in Chief for MayDay Group publications, which include the journals Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (ACT) and TOPICS for Music Education Praxis.
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Artistry and Citizenship:
Discourses of Normativity, Exclusion, & Impossible Dreams
Discourses of Normativity, Exclusion, & Impossible Dreams
This paper offers a critique of the concept of artistic citizenship, focusing on citizenship as it relates to the institutions of state and nationhood. I explore the tensions between metaphorical concepts of citizenship employed in the work of various authors (Campbell & Martin, 2006; Elliott, Silverman, & Bowman, 2016; Kornstein, 2010), and citizenship as the institution related to state/nationhood (Brandzel, 2016) with its potentially negative normativity. Questions emerging from this exploration discuss what artistic citizenship might mean for those vulnerable to the machinations of the state, those without citizenship, or those who are stateless.
References:
Brandzel, A. L. (2016). Against citizenship: The violence of the normative. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
Campbell, M. S., & Martin, R. (2006). Artistic citizenship: A public voice for the arts. New York: Routledge
Elliott, D. J., Silverman, M., & Bowman, W. (Eds.). (2016). Artistic citizenship: Artistry, social responsibility, and ethical praxis (Kindle ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
Kornstein, D. J. (2010). Unlikely muse: Legal thinking and artistic imagination. Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse.
References:
Brandzel, A. L. (2016). Against citizenship: The violence of the normative. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
Campbell, M. S., & Martin, R. (2006). Artistic citizenship: A public voice for the arts. New York: Routledge
Elliott, D. J., Silverman, M., & Bowman, W. (Eds.). (2016). Artistic citizenship: Artistry, social responsibility, and ethical praxis (Kindle ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
Kornstein, D. J. (2010). Unlikely muse: Legal thinking and artistic imagination. Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse.