- The Oxford Handbook of Community Music
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction: An Overview of Community Music in the Twenty-First Century
- Part I Contexts
- Community Music Contexts, Dynamics, and Sustainability
- Community Music Interventions in Post-Conflict Contexts
- Community Music in the South Pacific
- Community-Supported Music-Making As A Context For Positive And Creative Ageing
- Online Music Communities and Social Media
- How Ubiquitous Technologies Support Ubiquitous Music
- Music-Making Behind Bars: The Many Dimensions of Community Music in Prisons
- Part II Transformations
- Strategic Working with Children and Young People in Challenging Circumstances
- Community Music and Youth: Delivering Empowerment?
- Growing Community Music Through a Sense of Place
- Translating Intercultural Creativities in Community Music
- Community Musical Theatre and Interethnic Peace-Building in Malaysia
- Community Music Portraits of Struggle, Identity, and Togetherness
- Measuring Outcomes and Demonstrating Impact: Rhetoric and Reality in Evaluating Participatory Music Interventions
- Part III Politics
- Theorizing Arts Participation as a Social Change Mechanism
- Community Music in the United Kingdom: Politics or Policies?
- Community Music in Cultural Policy
- Rethinking Community Music as Artistic Citizenship
- The Ethics of Community Music
- Engaging in Policy-Making Through Community-Oriented Work
- Why Public Culture Fails at Diversity
- Part IV Intersections
- Community Music and Music Therapy: Jointly and Severally
- Disability Arts and Visually Impaired Musicians in the Community
- Group Singing and Quality of Life
- Community Music and Ethnomusicology
- Community Music and Rational Recreation
- Music Projects with Veteran and Military Communities
- Arts-Based Educational Research in Community Music
- Part V Education
- Community Music in Higher Education
- Models of Collaboration and Community Music
- A University Commitment to Collaborations with Local Musical Communities
- Community Service Learning with First Peoples
- Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning
- Community Music Practice with Adults
- Becoming a Community Musician: A Situated Approach to Curriculum, Content, and Assessment
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter explores identity, struggle, and inclusion in three contrasting settings: in American prisons and in community music projects in two vastly different locations and situations in Mexico and Palestine. The chapter relates this exploration to the Empowering Song approach developed in the United States in Boston, Massachusetts. This approach, born in the oppressive context of American prisons, and possessed of general music education approaches, has developed into a model for community music where social justice, enquiry, personal transformation, and community bonding are sought. In all three settings described in this chapter, identity, struggle, and inclusion are key elements through which the author interrogates and examines the artistic, pedagogical, and communal processes through a narrative style.
Keywords: : Mexico, Palestine, incarceration, community, human rights, Empowering Song, struggle
André de Quadros is a professor of music and chair of the Music Education Department at Boston University. As a music educator, conductor, ethnomusicologist, community musician, and human rights activist, he has conducted research or taught in forty countries. He is the music director and conductor of the Manado State University Choir (Indonesia), and for two project choirs: VOICES 21C and Common Ground Voices (Israeli-Palestinian-Swedish choir). He has long-standing experience in conflict, with refugees, and in prison settings. At Boston University he is also affiliated with centres and institutes in African-American studies, African studies, Asian studies, and prison education.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Community Music
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction: An Overview of Community Music in the Twenty-First Century
- Part I Contexts
- Community Music Contexts, Dynamics, and Sustainability
- Community Music Interventions in Post-Conflict Contexts
- Community Music in the South Pacific
- Community-Supported Music-Making As A Context For Positive And Creative Ageing
- Online Music Communities and Social Media
- How Ubiquitous Technologies Support Ubiquitous Music
- Music-Making Behind Bars: The Many Dimensions of Community Music in Prisons
- Part II Transformations
- Strategic Working with Children and Young People in Challenging Circumstances
- Community Music and Youth: Delivering Empowerment?
- Growing Community Music Through a Sense of Place
- Translating Intercultural Creativities in Community Music
- Community Musical Theatre and Interethnic Peace-Building in Malaysia
- Community Music Portraits of Struggle, Identity, and Togetherness
- Measuring Outcomes and Demonstrating Impact: Rhetoric and Reality in Evaluating Participatory Music Interventions
- Part III Politics
- Theorizing Arts Participation as a Social Change Mechanism
- Community Music in the United Kingdom: Politics or Policies?
- Community Music in Cultural Policy
- Rethinking Community Music as Artistic Citizenship
- The Ethics of Community Music
- Engaging in Policy-Making Through Community-Oriented Work
- Why Public Culture Fails at Diversity
- Part IV Intersections
- Community Music and Music Therapy: Jointly and Severally
- Disability Arts and Visually Impaired Musicians in the Community
- Group Singing and Quality of Life
- Community Music and Ethnomusicology
- Community Music and Rational Recreation
- Music Projects with Veteran and Military Communities
- Arts-Based Educational Research in Community Music
- Part V Education
- Community Music in Higher Education
- Models of Collaboration and Community Music
- A University Commitment to Collaborations with Local Musical Communities
- Community Service Learning with First Peoples
- Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning
- Community Music Practice with Adults
- Becoming a Community Musician: A Situated Approach to Curriculum, Content, and Assessment
- Index