Community music

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In this text, Lee Higgins investigates an interventional approach to music making outside of formal teaching and learning situations. Working with historical, ethnographic, and theoretical research, Higgins provides a resource for those who practice, advocate, teach, or study community music, music education, and music therapy.

Title Community music : in theory and in practice / Lee Higgins.
Publisher New York
Oxford : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-220) and index.
English
Content Cover
Contents
Photo List
1. Opening
Purpose
Significance
Historical (Re)construction
Illustrations and Exemplars
Theoretical Framework
Outline of Chapters
PART I: Inheritances and Pathways
2. Community Arts and Community Cultural Development
Background
Growth
Attitudes to Art
Cultural Democracy
Definitions
Community Cultural Development
3. The Growth of Community Music in the United Kingdom
Musicians-in-Residence
Music Animateur
Music Collectives and Punk Rock
The Formation of a National Development Agency
4. The Peterborough Community Samba Band
Identity
ContextCommunity
Participation
Pedagogy
5. International Perspectives
The Commission for Community Music Activity
Education, Training, and Professional Preparation
The Emergence of a Field
6. Illustrations of Practice
Hope and Community through Music
At-Risk Teenagers Rejoin Society through Community Music Groups
The Buddy Beat: Drumming to Promote Mental Health Recovery
"Junk" Instruments, Ensembles, and Music Making
The HONK! Festival in Davis Square
Community Bands in the Subúrbio Ferroviário Sector
Interethnic Connections at a Youth Music Festival
Virtual Community Music ImprovisationA Virtual Classroom
Breaking Down Barriers
Community Music Projects Revitalize a Seaside Resort
Music Making in an English-Language School
Learning Music in a Large Community Choir
Reciprocity in a Traveling Elderly Choir
7. Crossfields
Democracy, Lifelong Learning, and School-Music Education
Community Music Therapy
Cultural Diversity in Music Education
Applied Ethnomusicology
PART II: Interventions and Counterpaths
8. Acts of Hospitality
Community
Community in the Twenty-First Century
Community as Hospitality
9. Approaches to Practice
The Music WorkshopFacilitation
Safety without Safety
The Gift
10. Face-to-Face Encounters
The Individual Participant
Working Together
Trust, Respect, and Responsibility
Friendship
11. Cultural Democracy Revisited
Cultural Democracy to Come
Dreamers
12. Another Opening
History
Practice
Theory
Implications and Future Directions
Afterword
Notes
References
Index
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Extent 1 online resource (262 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010713196805171
MARC RECORDS

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