Community Music Today

Kari K. Veblen, Stephen J. Messenger, Marissa Silverman, David J. Elliott

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Year: 2013
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607093213
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Teaching Arts & Humanities

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: The Tapestry: Introducing Community Music
• Part I: Community Music in Global Context
• Chapter 2: Community Music in North America: Historical Foundations
• Chapter 3: Community Music in the United Kingdom
• Chapter 4: Community Music in the Nordic Countries: Politics, Research, Programs, and Educational Significance
• Chapter 5: Community Music in Africa: Perspectives from South Africa, Kenya, and Eritrea
• Chapter 6: Community Music in Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa
• Chapter 7: Community Music in East Asia
• Part II: Interconnections
• Chapter 8: Intergenerational Music Learning in Community and Schools
• Chapter 9: Music Learning as a Lifespan Endeavor
• Chapter 10: Community Music through Authentic Engagement: Bridging Community, School, University, and Arts Groups
• Chapter 11: Digital Communities: Sharing, Teaching, Exploring
• Part III: Marginalized Musics and Communities
• Chapter 12: Marginalized Communities: Reaching Those Falling Outside Socially Accepted Norms
• Chapter 13: Personal Growth through Music: Oakdale Prison’s Community Choir and Community Music for Homeless Populations in New York City
• Chapter 14: Reaching out to Participants Who Are Challenged
• Chapter 15: Diverse Communities, Inclusive Practice
• Part IV: Performing Ensembles: Artistry, Advocacy, and Social Justice
• Chapter 16: Community Choirs: Expressions of Identity through Vocal Performance
• Chapter 17: Instrumental Ensembles: Community Case Studies from Brazil and the United States
• Chapter 18: Expressing Faith through Vocal Performance
• Chapter 19: Community Music and Sustainability Worldwide: Ecosystems of Engaged Music Making
• Chapter 20: Resources in Community Music
• About the Contributors