Main entry:

Bain, Alison L., 1974- author.

Title & Author:

Creative margins : cultural production in Canadian suburbs / Alison L. Bain.

Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
©2013

Description:

viii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1 Introduction: creating from the margins -- Chapter 2 The geography of somewhere: the suburbs -- Chapter 3 (Un)usual suburbanites? Explorations and interventions at the cultural frontier -- Chapter 4 Why (not) here? Valuing the intermediate landscape -- Chapter 5 Suburban cultural infrastructure planning formulas: from district to multiplex -- Chapter 6 The creative art of place complexity in suburbia -- Chapter 7 Networked geographies of suburban cultural workers -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: culture from the outside in.

Summary:

"Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.
Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation of culture in suburbs, focusing on Etobicoke and Mississauga outside Toronto, and Surrey and North Vancouver outside Vancouver. The book investigates whether the creative process unfolds differently for suburban and urban cultural workers, as well as how this process is affected by the presence or absence of cultural infrastructure and planning initiatives.

ISBN:

9781442646902 (bound)
144264690X
9781442614697 (pbk.)
1442614692

Subject:

Arts and society Canada Case studies.
Popular culture Canada Case studies.
Artists Canada Case studies.
Arts Economic aspects Canada Case studies.
Suburbs Canada Case studies.
Sociology, Urban Canada Case studies.
Art and society Canada Case studies.
Art et société Canada Études de cas.
Culture populaire Canada Études de cas.
Artistes Canada Études de cas.
Arts Aspect économique Canada Études de cas.
Banlieues Canada Études de cas.
Sociologie urbaine Canada Études de cas.
Arts et société Canada Études de cas.
Art and society
Artists
Arts and society
Arts Economic aspects
Cultural policy
Popular culture
Sociology, Urban
Suburbs
Urbansociologi.
Fallstudier.
Kulturpolitik.
Canada Cultural policy Case studies.
Canada Politique culturelle Études de cas.
Canada
Kanada.

Form/genre:

Case studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 284683
Call No.: BIB 223785
Status: Available