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Performing arts in prisons : creative perspectives /

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, managem...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Balfour, Michael, 1966- (Editor ), Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh (Editor ), Davey, Linda (Editor ), Rynne, John (Editor ), Schippers, Huib, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : performing arts in prisons : creative perspectives
  • 1. A correctional perspective on the creative arts in prisons
  • 2. Geese Theatre Company : 30 years on
  • 3. One Mob Different Country : First Peoples of Australia dance in Darwin Prison
  • 4. "This place is full of drama queens" : reflecting on the value of drama in a women's prison
  • 5. Through the looking glass : a voice from the inside
  • 6. Breaking the fifth wall : how performance might assist desistance from crime
  • 7. Drumming interventions in Australian prisons : insights from the Rhythm2Recovery model
  • 8. Arts in Corrections New Zealand
  • 9. The play's the thing : performance in Prison Shakespeare
  • 10. "Heart and heartbeat" : working beyond prison theatre, performing protagonismo social in the real world
  • 11. "Strategies for success" : trusting the power of the arts
  • 12. Performing arts activities with hopes to build positive self-identity, heal harms and broaden the US public's perceptions of people inside prisons
  • 13. Unlocked : prison poetry workshops as a key to engaging inmates
  • 14. "Music is the colour of my skin" : the story of the Murru Band
  • Concluding reflections.