Community musicians move in many diverse settings, and facilitate local music activities in a wide array of community contexts including schools, hospitals places of worship, music festivals, and prisons. Underscoring the importance of active participation and sensitivity to context, they
integrate activities such as listening, improvising, inventing and performing while emphasizing equality of opportunity and fostering a diverse and welcoming environment for all who wish to partake.
In Community Music: In Theory and in Practice, author Lee Higgins, a recognized leader in
the study and advocacy of Community Music, investigates an interventional approach toward active music making outside of formal teaching and learning situations. Contextualizing Community Music within today's wider musical landscape, Higgins guides the reader through a historical perspective on the
movement and an examination of its traits of practice before concluding with a discussion of future implications and directions for this distinctive and increasingly significant music-making discipline. The first full-length work on the subject, Community Music: In Theory and In Practice is a
must-read for anyone invested in music education, music therapy, applied ethnomusicology, or community cultural development, as well as the practitioners and participants of community music activities.
Contents
1. Opening
Part One: Inheritances and Pathways
2. Community Arts & Community Cultural Development
3. The Growth of Community Music in the UK
4. The Peterborough Community Samba Band
5. International Perspectives
6. Illustrations of Practice
7.
Crossfields
Part Two: Interventions and Counterpaths
8. Acts of Hospitality
9. Approaches to Practice
10. Face-to-Face Encounters
11. Cultural Democracy Revisited
12. Another Opening
Notes
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Lee Higgins (UK/USA) is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Boston University School of Music. He is the senior editor of the International Journal of Community Music and a past chair of the International Society for Music Education Commission on Community Music Activity. His
professional practice embraces a gamut of music genres, most notably samba drumming, improvisation, pop/rock, and music technology. He has published articles in English, Portuguese, and Chinese and is the joint author of Free to Be Musical: Group Improvisation in Music.
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