Community Music Today: : Kari K. Veblen: R&L Education

Community Music Today

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Community Music Today highlights community music workers who constantly improvise and reinvent to lead through music and other expressive media. It answers the perennial question “What is community music?” through a broad, international palette of contextual shades, hues, tones, and colors. With over fifty musician/educators participating, the book explores community music in global contexts, interconnections, and marginalized communities, as well as artistry and social justice in performing ensembles.

This book is both a response to and a testimony of what music is and can do, music’s place in people’s lives, and the many ways it unites and marks communities. As documented in case studies, community music workers may be musicians, teachers, researchers, and activists, responding to the particular situations in which they find themselves. Their voices are the threads of the multifaceted tapestry of musical practices at play in formal, informal, nonformal, incidental, and accidental happenings of community music.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD
Lee Higgins
LIST OF FIGURES

Chapter 1. The Tapestry: Introducing Community Music
Kari Veblen
Section I: COMMUNITY MUSIC IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
Chapter2.North America: Historical Foundations
Jeff Bush, Andrew Krikun
Chapter3.Community Music in the United Kingdom
Kathryn Deane, Phil Mullen

Chapter 4.Community Music in the Nordic Countries: Politics,
Research, Programs, and Educational Significance
Sidsel Karlsen, Heidi Westerlund, Heidi Partti, Einar Solbu

Chapter5.Community Music in Africa: Perspectives from South Africa,
Kenya, and Eritrea
Elizabeth Oehrle, David Akombo, Elias Weldegebriel
Chapter6. Community Music in Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa
Brydie Leigh Bartleet, Shelley Brunt, Anja Tait, and Catherine Trelfall

Chapter 7. Community Music in East Asia
Chi Cheung Leung, Mari Siobara, Christine Yau
Section II:INTERCONNECTIONS
Chapter8.Intergenerational Music Learning in Community and Schools
Carol Beynon, Chris Alfano

Chapter9.Music Learning as a Lifespan Endeavor
David Myers, Chelcy Bowles, Will Dabback

Chapter10.Community Music Through Authentic Engagement:
Bridging Community, School, and University Programs
Sylvia Chong, Deborah Rohwer, Donna Emmanuel, Nathan Kruse
Rineke Smilde

Chapter11.Digital Community: Sharing, Teaching, Exploring
Stephen J. Messenger

III: MARGINALIZED MUSICS AND COMMUNITIES

Chapter12. Marginalized Communities: Reaching Those Falling
Outside Socially Accepted Norms
Sheila Woodward, Catherine Pestano

Chapter13.Person Growth through Music: The Oakdale Prison
Community Choir and Community Music for Homeless Populations
In New York City
Mary Cohen, Marissa Silverman

Chapter14.Reaching out to Participants who are Challenged
Donald De Vito, Arthur Gill

Chapter15.Diverse Communities, Inclusive Practice
Magali Kleber,Dochy Lichtenstein, Claudia Gluschankof

IV: PERFORMING ENSEMBLES: ARTISTRY, ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Chapter16.Community Choirs: Expressions of Identity through
Vocal Performance
Susan Avery, Casey Hayes, Cindy Bell

Chapter17.Instrumental Ensembles: Community Case
Studies from Brazil and the USA
Don Coffman, Joel Barbosa

Chapter18.Expressing Faith through Vocal Performance
Hussein Janmohamed, Cindy Bell, Mehnaz Thawer

Chapter19.Community Music andSustainability Worldwide:
Ecosystems of Engaged Music Making
Huip Schippers, Richard Letts

Chapter 20.Resources in Community Music
Janice Waldron, Steven Moser, Kari Veblen

About the Authors

Product details

Published	24 Jan 2013
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	300
ISBN	9781607093206
Imprint	R&L Education
Dimensions	253 x 179 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

This compendium of essays offers rich perspectives on Community Music, and communities making music, in a broad spectrum of contexts in the world. It is a grounded response to the question, “What is Community Music?”, such that by reading of music in mainstream and marginalized communities, inside and outside institutions, in venues ranging from after-school programs to settlement houses, elder-homes, and prisons, there emerges an understanding of music-making together, in socially-conscious collectives, as a precious human need--a vital piece of who we humanly are. Musicians, teachers, and scholars across the fields of music, education, therapy, and the “ologies” will find relevant reading for their thought and practice.

Patricia Shehan Campbell, Donald E. Petersen Professor of Music, University of Washington
By far the most comprehensive analysis of community music around the world in its breadth, depth, and gloriously dynamic diversity. Community Music Today not only provides an authoritative understanding of community music practice, it will inspire readers to get out and and do community music themselves.

David Price, St. Martin's University
This is a book to rejoice! Amply researched and balancing theory with practice, Community Music Today is a wonderfully rich contribution that illuminates the many varied ways in which community music enriches peoples lives internationally. All twenty chapters - from leaders in the field - expand conceptions of community music in ways that will both prompt you to think and inspire you to act.

Dr. Gary McPherson, Ormond Chair of Music and Director,Associate Dean, Research, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne