Looking at Community Music: A Fluid Definition

Whether a local youth choir, a drum circle, or a musical ensemble, community music can take many forms. Perhaps because of this malleability, the subject area has attracted a devoted following in academic study and continues to grow into its own beside and within the more traditional field of music education. But how is it defined? What are its limits? How do its roots relate to activism?

In this series,Lee Willingham, editor of Community Music at the Boundaries, and Mary Cohen and Stuart Duncan, co-authors of the upcoming Music-Making in U. S. Prisons: Listening to Incarcerated Voices, join the program to discuss the parameters and possibilities of community music. By prioritizing the musician over the music, this grassroots-led discipline has the potential to reap positive effects for both the music-maker and their community. Our guests ask: how can community music reach beyond sheet music to invoke social change?

In this first episode, Lee, Mary, and Stuart discuss their various paths toward becoming involved in the study of community music. They also take a crack at defining and tracing its growth in the past decade, thereby highlighting its wide-ranging, fluid, and dynamic characteristics.

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Whether a local youth choir, a drum circle, or a musical ensemble, community music can take many forms. Perhaps because of this malleability, the subject area has attracted a devoted following in academic study and continues to grow into its own beside and within the more traditional field of music education. But how is it defined? What are its limits? How do its roots relate to activism?

In this series,Lee Willingham, editor of Community Music at the Boundaries, and Mary Cohen and Stuart Duncan, co-authors of the upcoming Music-Making in U. S. Prisons: Listening to Incarcerated Voices, join the program to discuss the parameters and possibilities of community music. By prioritizing the musician over the music, this grassroots-led discipline has the potential to reap positive effects for both the music-maker and their community. Our guests ask: how can community music reach beyond sheet music to invoke social change?

In this first episode, Lee, Mary, and Stuart discuss their various paths toward becoming involved in the study of community music. They also take a crack at defining and tracing its growth in the past decade, thereby highlighting its wide-ranging, fluid, and dynamic characteristics.

Missed an episode? Subscribe to our monthly newsletter, Choice Podcast Updates and check out the Authority File Round-Up on our blog, Open Stacks!

Whether a local youth choir, a drum circle, or a musical ensemble, community music can take many forms. Perhaps because of this malleability, the subject area has attracted a devoted following in academic study and continues to grow into its own beside and within the more traditional field of music education. But how is it defined? What are its limits? How do its roots relate to activism?

In this series,Lee Willingham, editor of Community Music at the Boundaries, and Mary Cohen and Stuart Duncan, co-authors of the upcoming Music-Making in U. S. Prisons: Listening to Incarcerated Voices, join the program to discuss the parameters and possibilities of community music. By prioritizing the musician over the music, this grassroots-led discipline has the potential to reap positive effects for both the music-maker and their community. Our guests ask: how can community music reach beyond sheet music to invoke social change?

In this first episode, Lee, Mary, and Stuart discuss their various paths toward becoming involved in the study of community music. They also take a crack at defining and tracing its growth in the past decade, thereby highlighting its wide-ranging, fluid, and dynamic characteristics.

Missed an episode? Subscribe to our monthly newsletter, Choice Podcast Updates and check out the Authority File Round-Up on our blog, Open Stacks!

Whether a local youth choir, a drum circle, or a musical ensemble, community music can take many forms. Perhaps because of this malleability, the subject area has attracted a devoted following in academic study and continues to grow into its own beside and within the more traditional field of music education. But how is it defined? What are its limits? How do its roots relate to activism?

In this series,Lee Willingham, editor of Community Music at the Boundaries, and Mary Cohen and Stuart Duncan, co-authors of the upcoming Music-Making in U. S. Prisons: Listening to Incarcerated Voices, join the program to discuss the parameters and possibilities of community music. By prioritizing the musician over the music, this grassroots-led discipline has the potential to reap positive effects for both the music-maker and their community. Our guests ask: how can community music reach beyond sheet music to invoke social change?

In this first episode, Lee, Mary, and Stuart discuss their various paths toward becoming involved in the study of community music. They also take a crack at defining and tracing its growth in the past decade, thereby highlighting its wide-ranging, fluid, and dynamic characteristics.

Missed an episode? Subscribe to our monthly newsletter, Choice Podcast Updates and check out the Authority File Round-Up on our blog, Open Stacks!

Whether a local youth choir, a drum circle, or a musical ensemble, community music can take many forms. Perhaps because of this malleability, the subject area has attracted a devoted following in academic study and continues to grow into its own beside and within the more traditional field of music education. But how is it defined? What are its limits? How do its roots relate to activism?

In this series,Lee Willingham, editor of Community Music at the Boundaries, and Mary Cohen and Stuart Duncan, co-authors of the upcoming Music-Making in U. S. Prisons: Listening to Incarcerated Voices, join the program to discuss the parameters and possibilities of community music. By prioritizing the musician over the music, this grassroots-led discipline has the potential to reap positive effects for both the music-maker and their community. Our guests ask: how can community music reach beyond sheet music to invoke social change?

In this first episode, Lee, Mary, and Stuart discuss their various paths toward becoming involved in the study of community music. They also take a crack at defining and tracing its growth in the past decade, thereby highlighting its wide-ranging, fluid, and dynamic characteristics.

Missed an episode? Subscribe to our monthly newsletter, Choice Podcast Updates and check out the Authority File Round-Up on our blog, Open Stacks!

Whether a local youth choir, a drum circle, or a musical ensemble, community music can take many forms. Perhaps because of this malleability, the subject area has attracted a devoted following in academic study and continues to grow into its own beside and within the more traditional field of music education. But how is it defined? What are its limits? How do its roots relate to activism?

In this series,Lee Willingham, editor of Community Music at the Boundaries, and Mary Cohen and Stuart Duncan, co-authors of the upcoming Music-Making in U. S. Prisons: Listening to Incarcerated Voices, join the program to discuss the parameters and possibilities of community music. By prioritizing the musician over the music, this grassroots-led discipline has the potential to reap positive effects for both the music-maker and their community. Our guests ask: how can community music reach beyond sheet music to invoke social change?

In this first episode, Lee, Mary, and Stuart discuss their various paths toward becoming involved in the study of community music. They also take a crack at defining and tracing its growth in the past decade, thereby highlighting its wide-ranging, fluid, and dynamic characteristics.

Missed an episode? Subscribe to our monthly newsletter, Choice Podcast Updates and check out the Authority File Round-Up on our blog, Open Stacks!