{"product_id":"community-music-today-9781607093206","title":"Community Music Today","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommunity 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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, Donald E. Petersen Professor of Music, University of Washington\u003cbr\u003eBy 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\u003cbr\u003eThis 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, Ormond Chair of Music and Director,Associate Dean, Research, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\t  FOREWORD\t Lee Higgins LIST OF FIGURES\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Chapter 1.  The Tapestry: Introducing Community Music \t\t\t\t Kari Veblen Section I:  COMMUNITY MUSIC IN GLOBAL CONTEXT  Chapter 2. North America: Historical Foundations\t\t\t\t\t\t Jeff Bush, Andrew Krikun Chapter 3.  Community Music in the United Kingdom    \t\t\t\t\t Kathryn Deane, Phil Mullen   Chapter 4.  Community Music in the Nordic Countries: Politics, \t\t\t Research, Programs, and Educational Significance  Sidsel Karlsen, Heidi Westerlund, Heidi Partti, Einar Solbu    Chapter 5. Community Music in Africa: Perspectives from South Africa, \t\t Kenya, and Eritrea Elizabeth Oehrle, David Akombo, Elias Weldegebriel  Chapter 6.  Community Music in Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa\t\t\t Brydie Leigh Bartleet, Shelley Brunt, Anja Tait, and Catherine Trelfall  Chapter 7. Community Music in East Asia \t\t\t\t\t\t Chi Cheung Leung, Mari Siobara, Christine Yau  Section II:  INTERCONNECTIONS Chapter 8. Intergenerational Music Learning in Community and Schools  \t\t Carol Beynon, Chris Alfano   Chapter 9.  Music Learning as a Lifespan Endeavor  \t\t\t\t David Myers, Chelcy Bowles, Will Dabback  Chapter 10.  Community Music Through Authentic Engagement:\t\t\t Bridging Community, School, and University Programs  \t\t Sylvia Chong, Deborah Rohwer, Donna Emmanuel, Nathan Kruse Rineke Smilde  Chapter 11. Digital Community: Sharing, Teaching, Exploring\t\t\t Stephen J. Messenger   III: MARGINALIZED MUSICS AND COMMUNITIES   Chapter 12. Marginalized Communities: Reaching Those Falling\t\t\t Outside Socially Accepted Norms  Sheila Woodward, Catherine Pestano   Chapter 13. Person Growth through Music: The Oakdale Prison \t\t\t Community Choir and Community Music for Homeless Populations In New York City \t Mary Cohen, Marissa Silverman  Chapter 14.  Reaching out to Participants who are Challenged \t\t\t Donald De Vito, Arthur Gill   Chapter 15. Diverse Communities, Inclusive Practice \t\t\t\t Magali Kleber, Dochy Lichtenstein, Claudia Gluschankof   IV: PERFORMING ENSEMBLES: ARTISTRY, ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE  Chapter 16. Community Choirs: Expressions of Identity through        \t\t Vocal Performance Susan Avery, Casey Hayes, Cindy Bell    Chapter 17. Instrumental Ensembles: Community Case \t\t Studies from Brazil and the USA Don Coffman, Joel Barbosa   Chapter 18. Expressing Faith through Vocal Performance \t Hussein Janmohamed, Cindy Bell, Mehnaz Thawer   Chapter 19. Community Music and Sustainability Worldwide: \t\t\t Ecosystems of Engaged Music Making Huip Schippers, Richard Letts   Chapter 20. Resources in Community Music \t\t\t\t\t Janice Waldron, Steven Moser, Kari Veblen  About the Authors","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041613742423,"sku":"9781607093206","price":45.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781607093206.jpg?v=1750950998","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/community-music-today-9781607093206","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}