Oxford Handbook of Community Music

Community music as a field of practice, pedagogy, and research has come of age. The past decade has witnessed an exponential growth in practices, courses, programs, and research in communities and classrooms, and within the organizations dedicated to the subject. The Oxford Handbook of Community Music gives an authoritative and comprehensive review of what has been achieved in the field to date and what might be expected in the future. This Handbook addresses community music through five focused lenses: contexts, transformations, politics, intersections, and education. It not only captures the vibrant, dynamic, and divergent approaches that now characterize the field, but also charts the new and emerging contexts, practices, pedagogies, and research approaches that will define it in the coming decades. The contributors to this Handbook outline community music's common values that center on social justice, human rights, cultural democracy, participation, and hospitality from a range of different cultural contexts and perspectives. As such, The Oxford Handbook of Community Music provides a snapshot of what has become a truly global phenomenon.

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is Associate Professor and Director of the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre at Griffith University, Australia.
Lee Higgins is Professor of Music Education and Director of the International Centre for Community Music at York St John University. He is also the author of Community Music: In Theory and In Practice (2012).

- Foreword
- David Price
- 1 Introduction: An Overview of Community Music in the 21st Century
- Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Lee Higgins
- Contexts
- 2 Community Music Contexts, Dynamics and Sustainability
- Huib Schippers
- 3 Community Music Interventions in Post-Conflict Contexts
- Gillian Howell
- 4 Community Music in the South Pacific
- Te Oti Rakena
- 5 Community-Supported Music-Making as a Context for Positive and Creative Ageing
- Andrea Creech
- 6 Online Music Communities
- Janice Waldron
- 7 How Ubiquitous Technologies Support Ubiquitous Music
- Andrew Brown, Damián Keller, and Maria Helena de Lima
- 8 Music-Making Behind Bars: The Many Dimensions of Community Music in Prisons
- Mary Cohen and Jennie Henley
- Transformations
- 9 Strategic Working with Children and Young People in Challenging Circumstances
- Phil Mullen and Kathryn Deane
- 10 Community Music and Youth: Delivering Empowerment?
- Mark Rimmer
- 11 Growing Community Music Through a Sense of Place
- Peter Moser
- 12 Translating Intercultural Creativities in Community Music
- Pam Burnard, Valerie Ross, Laura Hassler, Lis Murphy
- 13 Community Musical Theatre and Inter-Ethnic Peace Building in Malaysia
- Sooi Beng Tan
- 14 Community Music Portraits of Struggle, Identity, and Togetherness
- Andre de Quadros
- 15 Measuring Outcomes and Demonstrating Impact: Rhetoric and Reality in Evaluating Participatory Music Interventions
- Douglas Lonie
- Politics
- 16 Theorising Arts Participation as a Social Change Mechanism
- Kim Dunphy
- 17 Community Music in the UK: Politics or Policies?
- Kathryn Deane
- 18 Community Music in Cultural Policy
- Quirijn Lennert van den Hoogen and Evert Bisschop Boele
- 19 Rethinking Community Music as Artistic Citizenship
- Marissa Silverman and David Elliott
- 20 The Ethics of Community Music
- David Lines
- 21 Engaging in Policy Making Through Community Oriented Work
- Patrick Schmidt
- 22 Why Public Culture Fails at Diversity
- James Bau Graves
- Intersections
- 23 Community Music and Music Therapy
- Stuart Wood and Gary Ansdell
- 24 Disability Arts and Visually-Impaired Musicians in the Community
- David Baker and Lucy Green
- 25 Group Singing and Quality of Life
- Patricia Lee, Donald Stewart, and Stephen Clift
- 26 Community Music and Ethnomusicology
- Stephen Cottrell and Angela Impey
- 27 Community Music and Rational Recreation
- Roger Mantie
- 28 Music Projects with Veteran and Military Communities
- Michael Balfour
- 29 Arts-Based Educational Research in Community Music
- Peter Gouzouasis and Danny Bakan
- Education
- 30 Community Music in Higher Education
- Lee Willingham and Glen Carruthers
- 31 Models of Collaboration in Community Music
- Susan Helfter and Beatriz Ilari
- 32 A University Commitment to Collaborations with Local Musical Communities
- Patricia Shehan Campbell and Shannon Dudley
- 33 Community Service Learning with First Peoples
- Brydie-?Leigh Bartleet, Dawn Bennett, Anne Power, and Naomi Sunderland
- 34 Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning
- Rineke Smilde
- 35 Community Music Pedagogy and Practice with Adults
- Don Coffman
- 36 Becoming a Community Musician: A Situated Approach to Curriculum, Content, and Assessment
- Dave Camlin and Katherine Zesersen
- Index