Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy

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ISBN: 9780415480956 | 0415480957
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/20/2009

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This book argues for a rethinking of what constitutes creativity, foregrounding non-economic values and practices, and the often marginal and everyday spaces in which creativity takes shape.

List of illustrations	p. ix
List of contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction: rethinking creativity: critiquing the creative class thesis	p. 1
Governing and practising creativity	p. 17
Creative spaces and the art of urban living	p. 19
Creativity by design? The role of informal spaces in creative production	p. 33
Art goes AWOL	p. 46
Decentring creativity	p. 61
Creativ* suburbs: cultural 'popcorn' pioneering in multi-purpose spaces	p. 63
Beyond bohemia: geographies of everyday creativity for musicians in Toronto	p. 75
Mapping vernacular creativity: the extent and diversity of rural festivals in Australia	p. 89
Imagining the spatialities of music production: the co-constitution of creative clusters and networks	p. 106
Remediating vernacular creativity: photography and cultural citizenship in the Flickr photo-sharing network	p. 116
Everyday spaces of creativity	p. 127
Creativity, space and performance: community gardening	p. 129
Growing places: community gardening, ordinary creativities and place-based regeneration in a northern English city	p. 141
Creative destruction and critical creativity: recent episodes in the social life of gnomes	p. 155
Christmas light displays and the creative production of spaces of generosity	p. 170
Vernacular creativity in everyday life	p. 183
Challenge, change, and space in vernacular cultural practice	p. 185
The politics of creative performance in public space: towards a critical geography of Toronto case studies	p. 200
Creativity unbound: cultivating the generative power of non-economic neighborhood spaces	p. 214
References	p. 226
Index	p. 250
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Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy

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