Community Music Today

by Kari K. Veblen (Editor), Stephen J. Messenger (Editor), Marissa Silverman (Editor), David J. Elliott (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607093206
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	01/24/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Kari K. Veblen is assistant dean of research and associate professor of music education at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at University of Western Ontario, Canada. A musician and educator, Dr. Veblen studies international trends in Community Music and writes on the intersections of music, education, the arts, and society and pursues a twenty-five year fascination with transmission of traditional Irish/Celtic/diasporic musics. An international representative to the NAfME Adult and Community Special Research Interest Group, she has served on many professional boards, including the ISME board. She is associate editor of the International Journal of Community Music.

Stephen James Messenger is a public school teacher who works with a diverse student body at the secondary level (his training includes special education, the teaching of Reading, and English as a Second Language) and is a visiting instructor in English composition at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the public honors college of the University of Maryland system, where he teaches English composition focused on the students’ musical lives. An active musician, Dr. Messenger plays guitar, mandolin, octave mandolin, and bass guitar and participates in a variety of on-line musical communities. His research interests include popular culture, poetry and imaginistic interdisciplinary work, Blues and American roots music, Mexican folk art, and British motorcycles.

Marissa Silverman is assistant professor and coordinator of undergraduate music education at the John J. Cali School of Music of Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey and active professional flutist in New York City. Previously she taught secondary school band, general music, and English literature in New York City. A Fulbright Scholar, her research interests include urban music education, music and social justice, interdisciplinary education, community music, secondary general music, curriculum development, and topics in the philosophy of music and music education. In addition to articles in peer-reviewed journals, Dr. Silverman has published invited book chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Music Education Philosophy, Music, Health and Wellbeing, and The Oxford Handbook of Music Education.

David J. Elliott is professor of music education at New York University. Author of Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education (Oxford 1995) and Praxial Music Education: Reflections, and Dialogues (Oxford: 2005), Dr. Elliott lectures and presents worldwide. He is currently Chief Editor of Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education and serves on several other editorial boards. As an award-winning composer and arranger, Dr. Elliott has published many choral and instrumental works (Boosey and Hawkes, New York). His primary interests are music education philosophy, curriculum, creativity, composition, and community music.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

Patricia Shehan Campbell

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.

Gary McPherson

This is a book to rejoice! Amply researched and balancing theory with practice,Community Music Todayis awonderfully 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.

David Price

By far the most comprehensive analysis of community music around the world in its breadth, depth, andgloriouslydynamic diversity.Community Music Today not only provides an authoritative understanding of community music practice, it will inspire readers to get out andand do community music themselves.

Editorial Reviews

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

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

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

This is a book to rejoice! Amply researched and balancing theory with practice,Community Music Todayis awonderfully 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.

Gary McPherson