Playing for Their Lives - The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music

Following Venezuela's El Sistema, activists from across the globe are founding intensive orchestra programmes for children in need. Tricia Tunstall and Eric Booth discover what makes this movement successful across radically different cultures, offering a new way to think about what energises people and communities towards positive social change.

About the author

Eric Booth, one of 2015's Fifty Most Influential Leaders in American Nonprofit Arts, is a celebrated teacher, actor, writer, director, and businessman. A longtime faculty member at Juilliard and Lincoln Center Education, he is the author of The Music Teaching Artist's Bible and winner of America's highest award in arts education.

Summary

An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema—intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Booth, Booth Eric, Tricia Tunstall, Tunstall Tricia
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2016
• EAN: 9780393245646
• ISBN: 978-0-393-24564-6
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 244 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 659 g
• Illustrations: 16 pages of illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Music, MUSIC / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Political activism, Poverty & unemployment, Poverty and precarity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement