Community Music at the Boundaries

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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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures and Tables Territorial Acknowledgement Foreword: On the Scholarship of Boundary Walking Acknowledgments Introduction PART I COMMUNITY MUSIC: WALKING THE BOUNDARIES OF CONTEXTS AND BORDERS CHAPTER 1 The Problem of Community: What Does It Really Mean to Be Inclusive? CHAPTER 2 Words of Choice: Challenging A Discourse of Disadvantage and Social Change in Community Music CHAPTER 3 Collaborative Musical Experiences with Urban Families Experiencing Homelessness in the United States CHAPTER 4 Mind the Gap! CHAPTER 5 The Borders Are Open: Community Music in Higher Education PART II COMMUNITY MUSIC: WALKING THE BOUNDARIES OF EDUCATION, ENSEMBLES, AND CHANGING PARADIGMS CHAPTER 6 Do, Review, Improve: Establishing a Framework for Quality Delivery within the Community Music Sector CHAPTER 7 A Music Educator’s Journey toward Addressing Gender Barriers in Music Education (A Non-Researcher’s Research and What Happened Next) CHAPTER 8 Music-Making Opportunities for Children from Underserved Populations : Impact and Transformations through Community Youth Orchestras CHAPTER 9 Time to Face the Mu sic? Possibilities for Community Music with Older Adults CHAPTER 10 And the Melody Lingers On: Building Social Capital through Community Music Participation CHAPTER 11 Mindfulness and Empathetic Considerations for Music Ensemble Directing CHAPTER 12 Musica per Tutti – Community Music as Meaningful, Emancipatory, and Affirming Alternatives to Formal Music Education in Italy CHAPTER 13 Music Technology as an Intuitive and Inclusive Pathway to Musical Thinking, Learning, and Doing CHAPTER 14 Dreaming Big with the Regent Park School of Music CHAPTER 15 Creative Community Composition PART III COMMUNITY MUSIC: SEEKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES CHAPTER 16 Community Music at the Cultural Interface: What the Experiences of Working alongside First Peoples Can Bring to Our Understandings of Community Music CHAPTER 17 Song as the Catalyst That Promotes Envisioning Ethical Spaces CHAPTER 18 The Sacred Canoe: The Search for Truth and Reconciliation through Cultural Partnership PART IV COMMUNITY MUSIC: WALKING THE BOUNDARIES OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS CHAPTER 19 Processing Refugee Journey and Promoting Self-Healing with Music and Art CHAPTER 20 Musical Identities, Personal Identities: Performance for CHAPTER 21 Music Care and the Aging Population: The Room 217 Story CHAPTER 22 Finding Our Music, Strengthening Care: A Case for Baseline Music Care Training CHAPTER 23 The Circle of Music Intergenerational Choir: Bridging PART V COMMUNITY MUSIC: WALKING THE BOUNDARIES OF PRISONS CHAPTER 24 Life within These Walls: Community Music-Making as a Bridge of Healing and Transformation in Prison Contexts CHAPTER 25 Creative Conversations with Justice and Arts Scotland CHAPTER 26 Exploring the Boundaries of Community Music: Tales of a Piano Journey inside a Female Prison CHAPTER 27 “The Song Bird House”: Clinical Applications of Music Therapy as a Central Source Of “Community” in a Women’s Federal Prison PART VI COMMUNITY MUSIC: WALKING THE BOUNDARIES OF CULTURAL IDENTITY CHAPTER 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 CHAPTER 29 Reclaiming Worship: Community Music Practices and Their Application to the Music-Making in the Anabaptist Mennonite Church CHAPTER 30 “If you don’t change you get left behind”: Playing in the Banda Italiana Musicale Vincenzo Bellini in Melbourne, Australia CHAPTER 31 Remembering a Hard Life with Joy: Music-Making among Korean Elders CHAPTER 32 Music as Gift: Ethical Exchange through Intercultural Improvisation Postscript Bibliography List of Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z