Abstract
Abstract
This think piece aims to evoke research approaches resonating with community music’s ethos and practice. After contextualizing questions that have driven the author’s project, this chapter engages with a figure of the margin and presents some ideas of how this may be useful when considering community music research. Following this, the author uses his tenure as the editor of the International Journal of Community Music as a case to explore Gianni Vattimo’s notion of weak thought, suggesting ways those in positions of power might model community musics ethos for the next generation of scholars. Through two illustrations of practice, the author discusses representations of community music practice within two different research frames and asks, How might I do community music research?
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
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