Musical Ecologies: Instrumental Music Ensembles Around the World

Contents

• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Chapter 1. Introduction - Redefining the Field
• Leon R de Bruin and Jane Southcott
• PART 1: MAINTAINING AND DISRUPTING TRADITIONS: CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGIES OF COMMUNITY MUSIC PRACTICES
• - Maintaining/ disrupting traditions
• - Theoretical perspectives and landscapes - re-territory/deterritorialization
• - Reimagining the community music ensemble
• - Innovation/stasis/ in the community ensemble
• Chapter 2. Shifting the Conservatory Narrative: Designing University Curriculum that Celebrates Communities' Musics
• Te Oti Rakena and John Coulter
• Chapter 3. Optimising the Feedback Loop Between Community and Community Ensemble: A Case Study
• Adam Starr
• Chapter 4. The Venda tshikona Reed-Pipe Dance as Community Music: Mapping the Ecology of a South African Traditional Music
• Susan Harrop-Allin and Dean Salant
• Chapter 5. An Inclusion Strategy Approach for Deepening Community Music Engagement in Non-Metropolitan Australia
• Graham Sattler and Phil Mullen
• PART 2: THE RHYZOMAL ASSEMBLAGE: INTERACTIONS AND LOCALIZED MICRO-SYSTEMS OF INDIVIDUALS' COMMUNAL EXISTENCE
• - Musical ecologies and ecosystems
• - Multiple participation, diverse agencies and identities
• - Individual and group agency
• - Action and intra-action in community musicking
• Chapter 6. Agua! The flourishing of Latin Music in Melbourne, Australia
• Leon R de Bruin
• Chapter 7. Synthesis and Embodiment: The Lowell String Project as Complex Musical Ecosystem
• Elissa Johnson-Green
• Chapter 8. Mount Gambier's Generations in Jazz: The Impact of Community and Cross-Regional Partnerships
• Adam Hardcastle
• Chapter 9. Friends in Concert: Growing Music Teacher Identities through Community Music Making
• Yan Chen Alvyn Eng, Siew Ling Chua and James Lee
• Chapter 10. Training and Retaining Traditions: The Grainger Wind Symphony
• Jane Southcott and Leon R de Bruin
• PART 3: WIDER MESO-SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE, EVOLUTION AND INNOVATION
• - Specific practices, interactions environments, partnerships and collaborations
• - The ethics of specific instrumental community music ensembles
• - Local/glocal/international perspectives and movements
• - Creativities in instrumental community music - how is it different/ same between prof and amateur
• Chapter 11. The Armidale Symphony Orchestra: The Ecology of a Regional Orchestra
• Alana Blackburn
• Chapter 12. Friends in Music: The Chao Feng Chinese Orchestra, Melbourne, Australia
• Jane Southcott and Vicky Liao
• Chapter 13. The Golden Age Ensemble: A Community Music Partnership
• Chi Ying Lam
• Chapter 14. PUBlic Choir: Facilitating an Emergent Musicking Community
• Graham Sattler
• Chapter 15. Jazz, Improvisation, Community: The Affective Constitution of Social Identity
• Chris Stover
• Chapter 16. Postlude
• Leon R de Bruin and Jane Southcott
• References
• Index