Abstract
Abstract
In this think piece, the author asks, How might community music become? This provocation encourages those involved in community music practice to reflect upon its status, both within its own terms of reference and within the broader parameters of music making, teaching, and learning. The question is open and exploratory, containing a “might” rather than an “ought” or a “should,” and thus points toward opportunities to explore its challenge either as an individual practitioner or collaboratively as a group, as an ensemble, at a conference, at a symposium, or as part of an academic course. It is a chance to wonder or imagine community music’s future regarding impact, policy, pedagogy, musicking, and research. In part, it is an extension of questions regarding definition. Moving in, through, and between Deleuzian concepts, the chapter explores the idea that community music is a multiplicity, an assemblage that seeks relational connections and an endless potential configuration.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
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