Performing arts in prison : captive audiences / edited by Michael Balfour [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balfour, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, [2019]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Performing Arts in Prisons explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests music, theatre, poetry and dance can contribute to prisoner wellbeing, management, rehabilitation and reintegration. Performing Arts in Prisons represents a range of distinct perspectives on thesubject, from an inspector of prisons to the voice of the prisoner. The book includes a spectrum of arts approaches and models of practice alongside theory, critical commentary and accounts of personal experience to present a full analysis of the value and effects of creative arts in prison.

Contents:

Performing arts in prison : creative perspectives

Contents

Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: A correctional perspective on the creative arts in prisons

Chapter 2: Geese Theatre Company – 30 years on

Chapter 3: One Mob Different Country: First Peoples of Australia dance in Darwin Prison

Chapter 4: ‘This place is full of drama queens’: Reflecting on the value of drama in a women’s prison

Chapter 5: Through the looking glass: A voice from the inside

Chapter 6: Breaking the fifth wall: How performance might assist desistance from crime

Chapter 7: Drumming interventions in Australian prisons: Insights from the Rhythm2Recovery model

Chapter 8: Arts in Corrections New Zealand

Chapter 9: The play’s the thing: Performance in Prison Shakespeare

Chapter 10: ‘Heart and heartbeat’: Working beyond prison theatre, performing protagonismo social in the real world

Chapter 11: ‘Strategies for success’: Trusting the power of the arts

Chapter 12: Performing arts activities with hopes to build positive self-identity, heal harms and broaden the US public’s perceptions of people inside prisons

Chapter 13: Unlocked: Prison poetry workshops as a key to engaging inmates

Chapter 14: ‘Music is the colour of my skin’: The story of the Murru Band

Concluding reflections

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789380156

1789380154

9781789380163

1789380162