Community Music at the Boundaries
Published on 30. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
580 pages
978-1-77112-457-7 (ISBN)
Description
Music lives where people live. Historically, music study has centred on the conservatory, which privileges the study of the Western European canon and Western European practice . The Eurocentric way music has been studied has excluded communities that are considered to be marginalized in one or more ways despite that the majority of human experiences with music is found outside of that realm. Community music has emerged as a counter-narrative to the hegemonic music canon: it seeks to increase the participation of those living on the boundaries.""
Community Music at the Boundaries explores music and music-making on those edges. ""The real power of community music,"" writes Roger Mantie in the foreword, ""lies not in the fiction of trying to eliminate boundaries (or pretending they don't exist), but in embracing the challenge of 'walking' them."" Contributions from scholars and researchers, music practitioners, and administrators examine the intersection of music and communities in a variety of music-making forms: ensembles, university and police choirs, bands, prison performing groups, youth music groups, instrument classes, symphonies, drum circles, and musical direction and performance. Some of the topics explored in the volume include education and change, music and Indigenous communities, health and wellness, music by incarcerated persons, and cultural identity. By shining a light on boundaries, this volume provides a wealth of international perspectives and knowledge about the ways that music enhances lives.
Community Music at the Boundaries explores music and music-making on those edges. ""The real power of community music,"" writes Roger Mantie in the foreword, ""lies not in the fiction of trying to eliminate boundaries (or pretending they don't exist), but in embracing the challenge of 'walking' them."" Contributions from scholars and researchers, music practitioners, and administrators examine the intersection of music and communities in a variety of music-making forms: ensembles, university and police choirs, bands, prison performing groups, youth music groups, instrument classes, symphonies, drum circles, and musical direction and performance. Some of the topics explored in the volume include education and change, music and Indigenous communities, health and wellness, music by incarcerated persons, and cultural identity. By shining a light on boundaries, this volume provides a wealth of international perspectives and knowledge about the ways that music enhances lives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
880 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77112-457-7 (9781771124577)
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Lee Willingham is a Professor of Music Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the coordinator of the MA in Community Music program and the Director of the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community. Willingham co-chairs the International Society of Music Education (ISME) Community Association Conference, which will be held in Helsinki in 2020.
Content
List of Figures
Territorial Acknowledgement
Foreword by Roger Mantie
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Lee Willingham
Part 1: Community Music: Walking the Boundaries of Contexts and Borders
1. The Problem of Community / Deanna Yerichuk and Justis Krar
2. Words of Choice: Challenging A Discourse of Disadvantage and Social Change in Community Music / Kathleen Turner
3. Collaborative Musical Experiences with Urban Families Experiencing Homelessness in the United States / Lindsey G. Castellano
4. Mind the Gap / Dave Camlin
5. The Borders are Open: Community Music in Higher Education / Glen Carruthers
Part 2: Community Music: Walking the Boundaries of Education, Ensembles and Changing Paradigms
6. Do, Review, Improve: Establishing a Framework for Quality Delivery within the Community Music Sector / Phil Mullen
7. A Music Educator's Journey Towards Addressing Gender Barriers in Music Education / Elizabeth Parker-Cook
8. Music-Making Opportunities for Children from Underserved Populations: Impact and Transformations through Community Youth Orchestras / Christine D'Alexander
9. Time to Face the Music: Possibilities for Community Music with Older Adults / Donald D. Coffman and William M. Dabback
10. And the Melody Still Lingers On: Building Social Capital Through Community Music Participation / Annie Mitchell
11. Mindfulness and Empathetic Considerations for Music Ensemble Directing / Brent Rowan
12. Musica Per Tutti - Community Music as Meaningful, Emancipatory and Affirming to Alternatives to Formal Music Education in Italy / Antonella Coppi and Johann Van Der Sandt
13. Music Technology as an Intuitive and Inclusive Pathway to Musical Thinking, Learning and Doing / Gena Greher
14. Dreaming Big with the Regent Park School of Music / Rich Marsella
15. Creative Community Composition / Pete Moser
Part 3: Community Music: Seeking Relationships with Indigenous Communities
16. Community Music at the Cultural Interface: What the Experiences of Working Alongside First Peoples Can Bring to Our Understandings of Community Music / Brydie-Leigh Bartleet
17. Song as the Catalyst that Promotes Envisioning Ethical Spaces / Kelly Laurila
18. The Sacred Canoe: The Search for Truth and Reconciliation through Cultural Partnership Glenn Marais
Part 4: Community Music Walking the Boundaries of Health and Wellness
19. Processing Refugee Journey and Promoting Self-Healing with Music and Art / Heidi Ahonen
20. Musical Identities, Personal Identities: Performance for Children with Disabilities Elizabeth Mitchell
21. Music Care and the Aging Population: The Room 217 Story / Bev Foster
22. Finding Our Music, Strengthening Care: A Case for Baseline Music Care Training / Sarah Pearson
23. The Circle of Music Intergenerational Choir: Bridging the Generations while Extending the Boundaries of Understanding, Supporting and Mentoring / Sasha Judelson
Part 5: Community Music Walking the Boundaries of Prisons
24. Life Within These Walls: Community Music-Making as a Bridge of Healing and Transformation in Prison Contexts / Mary Cohen, Johnathan Kana, and Richard Winemiller
25. Creative Conversations with the Scottish Prison Arts Network / Kirstin Anderson
26. Exploring the Boundaries of Community Music: Tales of a Piano Journey Inside a Female Prison / Ines Lamela, Paulo Rodrigues, and Graca Mota
27. "The Song Bird House": Clinical Applications of Music Therapy As A Central Source Of "Community" In a Women's Federal Prison / Rebekah Jordan-Miller
Part 6: Community Music Walking the Boundaries of Cultural Identity
28. At the Panyard, in the Calypso Tent, on the Soca Stage: Exploring 'Ideal' Identity through Community Music Activities During Carnival in Grenada, West Indies / Danielle Sirek
29. Reclaiming Worship: Community Music Practices and their Application to the Music-Making in The Anabaptist Mennonite Church / Brandon Leis
30. "If You Don't Change You Get Left Behind": Playing in the Banda Italiana Musicale Vincenzo Bellini in Melbourne, Australia / Jane Southcott and Leon De Bruin
31. Remembering a Hard Life with Joy: Music Making Among Korean Elders / Elisha Jo Heesun, Kari K. Veblen, and Patrick J. Potter
32. Music as Gift: Ethical Exchange through Intercultural Improvisation / Gerard Yun
Postscript / Lee Higgins
Contributor Bios
Index
Territorial Acknowledgement
Foreword by Roger Mantie
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Lee Willingham
Part 1: Community Music: Walking the Boundaries of Contexts and Borders
1. The Problem of Community / Deanna Yerichuk and Justis Krar
2. Words of Choice: Challenging A Discourse of Disadvantage and Social Change in Community Music / Kathleen Turner
3. Collaborative Musical Experiences with Urban Families Experiencing Homelessness in the United States / Lindsey G. Castellano
4. Mind the Gap / Dave Camlin
5. The Borders are Open: Community Music in Higher Education / Glen Carruthers
Part 2: Community Music: Walking the Boundaries of Education, Ensembles and Changing Paradigms
6. Do, Review, Improve: Establishing a Framework for Quality Delivery within the Community Music Sector / Phil Mullen
7. A Music Educator's Journey Towards Addressing Gender Barriers in Music Education / Elizabeth Parker-Cook
8. Music-Making Opportunities for Children from Underserved Populations: Impact and Transformations through Community Youth Orchestras / Christine D'Alexander
9. Time to Face the Music: Possibilities for Community Music with Older Adults / Donald D. Coffman and William M. Dabback
10. And the Melody Still Lingers On: Building Social Capital Through Community Music Participation / Annie Mitchell
11. Mindfulness and Empathetic Considerations for Music Ensemble Directing / Brent Rowan
12. Musica Per Tutti - Community Music as Meaningful, Emancipatory and Affirming to Alternatives to Formal Music Education in Italy / Antonella Coppi and Johann Van Der Sandt
13. Music Technology as an Intuitive and Inclusive Pathway to Musical Thinking, Learning and Doing / Gena Greher
14. Dreaming Big with the Regent Park School of Music / Rich Marsella
15. Creative Community Composition / Pete Moser
Part 3: Community Music: Seeking Relationships with Indigenous Communities
16. Community Music at the Cultural Interface: What the Experiences of Working Alongside First Peoples Can Bring to Our Understandings of Community Music / Brydie-Leigh Bartleet
17. Song as the Catalyst that Promotes Envisioning Ethical Spaces / Kelly Laurila
18. The Sacred Canoe: The Search for Truth and Reconciliation through Cultural Partnership Glenn Marais
Part 4: Community Music Walking the Boundaries of Health and Wellness
19. Processing Refugee Journey and Promoting Self-Healing with Music and Art / Heidi Ahonen
20. Musical Identities, Personal Identities: Performance for Children with Disabilities Elizabeth Mitchell
21. Music Care and the Aging Population: The Room 217 Story / Bev Foster
22. Finding Our Music, Strengthening Care: A Case for Baseline Music Care Training / Sarah Pearson
23. The Circle of Music Intergenerational Choir: Bridging the Generations while Extending the Boundaries of Understanding, Supporting and Mentoring / Sasha Judelson
Part 5: Community Music Walking the Boundaries of Prisons
24. Life Within These Walls: Community Music-Making as a Bridge of Healing and Transformation in Prison Contexts / Mary Cohen, Johnathan Kana, and Richard Winemiller
25. Creative Conversations with the Scottish Prison Arts Network / Kirstin Anderson
26. Exploring the Boundaries of Community Music: Tales of a Piano Journey Inside a Female Prison / Ines Lamela, Paulo Rodrigues, and Graca Mota
27. "The Song Bird House": Clinical Applications of Music Therapy As A Central Source Of "Community" In a Women's Federal Prison / Rebekah Jordan-Miller
Part 6: Community Music Walking the Boundaries of Cultural Identity
28. At the Panyard, in the Calypso Tent, on the Soca Stage: Exploring 'Ideal' Identity through Community Music Activities During Carnival in Grenada, West Indies / Danielle Sirek
29. Reclaiming Worship: Community Music Practices and their Application to the Music-Making in The Anabaptist Mennonite Church / Brandon Leis
30. "If You Don't Change You Get Left Behind": Playing in the Banda Italiana Musicale Vincenzo Bellini in Melbourne, Australia / Jane Southcott and Leon De Bruin
31. Remembering a Hard Life with Joy: Music Making Among Korean Elders / Elisha Jo Heesun, Kari K. Veblen, and Patrick J. Potter
32. Music as Gift: Ethical Exchange through Intercultural Improvisation / Gerard Yun
Postscript / Lee Higgins
Contributor Bios
Index