Community Music at the Boundaries

651 Pages·2021·9.193 MB·English

by  Lee Willingham (editor)

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Community Music
at the Boundaries
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Lee Willingham, editor
Community Music
at the Boundaries
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council
for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support
of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing
activities. This work was supported by the Research Support Fund.
an Ontario government agency
Funded by the Government of Canada un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Community music at the boundaries / Lee Willingham, editor.
Names: Willingham, Lee, editor.
Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200298550 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200298623
| ISBN 9781771124577 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771124584 (EPUB) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Community music—History and criticism. | LCSH: Music—
Social aspects.
Classification: LCC ML3916 .C734 2021 | DDC 780—dc23
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CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables ix
Territorial Acknowledgement xi
Foreword: On the Scholarship of Boundary Walking xiii
Roger Mantie
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
Lee Willingham
PART I COMMUNITY MUSIC: WALKING THE BOUNDARIES OF
CONTEXTS AND BORDERS
chapter 1 The Problem of Community: What Does It Really Mean 7
to Be Inclusive?
Deanna Yerichuk and Justis Krar
chapter 2 Words of Choice: Challenging A Discourse of Disadvantage
and Social Change in Community Music 26
Kathleen Turner
chapter 3 Collaborative Musical Experiences with Urban Families
Experiencing Homelessness in the United States 46
Lindsey G. Castellano
chapter 4 Mind the Gap! 72
Dave Camlin
chapter 5 The Borders Are Open: Community Music in Higher
Education 96
Glen Carruthers
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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 109
Phil Mullen
chapter 7 A Music Educator’s Journey toward Addressing Gender
Barriers in Music Education (A Non-Researcher’s Research
and What Happened Next) 127
Elizabeth Parker-Cook
chapter 8 Music-Making Opportunities for Children from
Underserved Populations: Impact and Transformations
through Community Youth Orchestras 141
Christine D’Alexander
chapter 9 Time to Face the Music? Possibilities for Community
Music with Older Adults 155
Donald D. Coffman and William M. Dabback
chapter 10 And the Melody Lingers On: Building Social Capital
through Community Music Participation 171
Annie Mitchell
chapter 11 Mindfulness and Empathetic Considerations for Music
Ensemble Directing 185
Brent Rowan
chapter 12 Musica per Tutti – Community Music as Meaningful,
Emancipatory, and Affirming Alternatives to Formal
Music Education in Italy 194
Antonella Coppi and Johann van der Sandt
chapter 13 Music Technology as an Intuitive and Inclusive Pathway
to Musical Thinking, Learning, and Doing 216
Gena Greher
chapter 14 Dreaming Big with the Regent Park School of Music 229
Richard Marsella
chapter 15 Creative Community Composition 240
Pete Moser
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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 249
Brydie-Leigh Bartleet
chapter 17 Song as the Catalyst That Promotes Envisioning
Ethical Spaces 260
Kelly Laurila
chapter 18 The Sacred Canoe: The Search for Truth and Reconciliation
through Cultural Partnership 274
Glenn Marais
PART IV COMMUNITY MUSIC: WALKING THE BOUNDARIES OF
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
chapter 19 Processing Refugee Journey and Promoting Self-Healing
with Music and Art 289
Heidi Ahonen
chapter 20 Musical Identities, Personal Identities: Performance for 315
Children with Disabilities
Elizabeth Mitchell
chapter 21 Music Care and the Aging Population: The Room 217 Story 334
Bev Foster
chapter 22 Finding Our Music, Strengthening Care: A Case for
Baseline Music Care Training 350
Sarah Pearson
chapter 23 The Circle of Music Intergenerational Choir: Bridging 365
the Generations
Sasha Judelson
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 383
Mary Cohen, Johnathan Kana, and Richard Winemiller
chapter 25 Creative Conversations with Justice and Arts Scotland 402
Kirstin Anderson
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chapter 26 Exploring the Boundaries of Community Music: Tales of
a Piano Journey inside a Female Prison 409
Inês Lamela, Paulo Rodrigues, and Graça Mota
chapter 27 “The Song Bird House”: Clinical Applications of Music
Therapy as a Central Source Of “Community” in a
Women’s Federal Prison 429
Rebekah Jordan-Miller
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 445
Danielle Sirek
chapter 29 Reclaiming Worship: Community Music Practices and
Their Application to the Music-Making in the Anabaptist
Mennonite Church 461
Brandon Leis
chapter 30 “If you don’t change you get left behind”: Playing in
the Banda Italiana Musicale Vincenzo Bellini in
Melbourne, Australia 482
Jane Southcott and Leon de Bruin
chapter 31 Remembering a Hard Life with Joy: Music-Making among
Korean Elders 498
Elisha Jo Heesun, Kari K. Veblen, and Patrick J. Potter
chapter 32 Music as Gift: Ethical Exchange through Intercultural
Improvisation 511
Gerard Yun
Postscript 527
Lee Higgins
Bibliography 529
List of Contributors 591
Index 599
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LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
figure 3.1 Adapted Bronfenbrenner (1979) model 53
figure 3.2 Developed Bronfenbrenner (1979) model 54
figure 3.3 Self-portrait, thirteen-year-old Talia’s musical-self 56
figure 3.4 Self-portrait, mother of five Deandra’s musical-self 56
figure 3.5 Self-portrait, six-year-old Jason’s musical-self 57
figure 3.5.1 Self-portrait, six-year-old Jason and five-year-old Ray’s
musical-selves 58
figure 3.5.2 Self-portrait five-year-old Ray’s musical-self 58
figure 3.6 Self-portrait, Ray and his father Jim’s musical-selves 59
figure 3.7 Self-portrait, twelve-year-old Tammy’s musical-self 60
figure 3.8 Self-portrait, eleven-year-old Annie’s musical-self 60
figure 3.8.1 Self-portrait, back of Annie’s drawing and her sister
Talia’s musical-self 61
figure 3.9 Individual within the context of the community music program 67
figure 4.1 Time Spent on Musical Activities 80
figure 4.2 Income Derived from Musical Activities 81
table 5.1 Applications to university music programs in Ontario, 2012–15 99
figure 5.1 Proportion of core music programs devoted to various subjects
(Brock University and University of Ottawa) 101
table 9.1 NHIMA participants, demographics 160
table 9.2 NHIMA participants, age by gender 161
figure 11.1 Music ensemble 188
table 11.1 Director dos and don’ts 193
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