{"product_id":"musical-ecologies-9781032184333","title":"Musical Ecologies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommunity music around the world reflects the growing and diverse ways humans collectivise and express themselves in ways that articulate our cultural, social, and environmental complexity. Revisiting, redevising, and reimagining some of the field's approaches, ideologies, and contexts, this co-edited volume investigates beyond generalist intercultural and internationalist concepts to reveal the complexity of social ways people come together to make music and to making music be central to this sociality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe authors explore the role community music plays out around the world and how various instrumentally based music-making communities operate as ecologies that allow notions of social, political, and cultural agency and identity\/ies. Chapters cover various instrumental community music ensembles, observing how they, as social microcosms of change and stasis, provide working methods new and old, extol values, and model ethical behaviours that are fluid and dynamic, steadfast an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Introduction - Redefining the Field\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeon R de Bruin and Jane Southcott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART 1: MAINTAINING AND DISRUPTING TRADITIONS: CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGIES OF COMMUNITY MUSIC PRACTICES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Maintaining\/ disrupting traditions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Theoretical perspectives and landscapes – re-territory\/deterritorialization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Reimagining the community music ensemble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Innovation\/stasis\/ in the community ensemble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Shifting the Conservatory Narrative: Designing University Curriculum that Celebrates Communities’ Musics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTe Oti Rakena and John Coulter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Optimising the Feedback Loop Between Community and Community Ensemble: A Case Study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Starr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. The Venda tshikona Reed-Pipe Dance as Community Music: Mapping the Ecology of a South African Traditional Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Harrop-Allin and Dean Salant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. An Inclusion Strategy Approach for Deepening Community Music Engagement in Non-Metropolitan Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraham Sattler and Phil Mullen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART 2: THE RHYZOMAL ASSEMBLAGE: INTERACTIONS AND LOCALIZED MICRO-SYSTEMS OF INDIVIDUALS’ COMMUNAL EXISTENCE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Musical ecologies and ecosystems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Multiple participation, diverse agencies and identities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Individual and group agency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Action and intra-action in community musicking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Agua! The flourishing of Latin Music in Melbourne, Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeon R de Bruin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Synthesis and Embodiment: The Lowell String Project as Complex Musical Ecosystem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElissa Johnson-Green\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Mount Gambier's Generations in Jazz: The Impact of Community and Cross-Regional Partnerships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Hardcastle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Friends in Concert: Growing Music Teacher Identities through Community Music Making \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYan Chen Alvyn Eng, Siew Ling Chua and James Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Training and Retaining Traditions: The Grainger Wind Symphony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Southcott and Leon R de Bruin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART 3: WIDER MESO-SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE, EVOLUTION AND INNOVATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Specific practices, interactions environments, partnerships and collaborations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The ethics of specific instrumental community music ensembles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Local\/glocal\/international perspectives and movements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Creativities in instrumental community music – how is it different\/ same between prof and amateur\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. The Armidale Symphony Orchestra: The Ecology of a Regional Orchestra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlana Blackburn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. Friends in Music: The Chao Feng Chinese Orchestra, Melbourne, Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Southcott and Vicky Liao\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. The Golden Age Ensemble: A Community Music Partnership\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChi Ying Lam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. PUBlic Choir: Facilitating an Emergent Musicking Community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraham Sattler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. Jazz, Improvisation, Community: The Affective Constitution of Social Identity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Stover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16. Postlude\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeon R de Bruin and Jane Southcott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferences \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018883858775,"sku":"9781032184333","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032184333.jpg?v=1750778515","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/musical-ecologies-9781032184333","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}