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.

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

Edited by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet , Senior Lecturer in Music, Griffith Conservatorium, Australia

Edited by Lee Higgins , Associate Professor of Music Education, Boston University, USA

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).