Call for Chapters expression of interest: COMMUNITY MUSIC – MUSICAL
ECOLOGIES IN ACTION

Community music globally reflects the growing and diverse ways humans
collectivise and express themselves, articulating cultural, social and
environmental complexity. Revisiting, redevising and reimagining
approaches, ideologies, and contexts, this co-edited volume investigates
beyond generalist intercultural and internationalist concepts to reveal the
complexity of social ways people come together to make music. It touches
how various instrumentally based music-making communities operate as
ecologies, allowing notions of social, political and cultural agency and
identity/ies. It explores various instrumental community music ensembles
(CMEs), observing how they as social microcosms of change and stasis
provide working methods new and old, extol values and model ethical
behaviors that are fluid and dynamic, steadfast and unyielding and that
contribute to the ebb and flow of people and their agency that remains
under-researched. We provide snapshots of variously functioning ensembles
and explore how myriad instrumental CMEs act as drivers, complex
environments and apparati for musical and social expression. We explore
community music as local, glocal, global phenomena, critically discussing
the redefining of community music and what music-making means to people in
the twenty-first century.

(All chapters double peer reviewed by authorial team)

Editors: Associate Professor Jane Southcott, Dr Leon de Bruin

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 CME
 Innovation/stasis
PART 2: THE RHYZOMAL ASSEMBLAGE: INTERACTIONS AND LOCALIZED MICRO-SYSTEMS
OF INDIVIDUALS’ COMMUNAL EXISTENCE
 Musical ecologies and ecosystems
 Participation, diverse agencies and identities
 Individual/group agency
 Action and intra-action in community musicking
PART 3: WIDER MESO-SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE, EVOLUTION AND
INNOVATION
 Practices, interactions environments, partnerships, collaborations
 Ethics of instrumental CMEs
 Local/glocal/international perspectives and movements
 Creativities in instrumental CMEs – difference/similarity between prof
and amateur

Proposals (Word doc)
• Chapter title: >12 words
• Abstract: 300 words (Times New Roman 12, double spaced)
• Full name, institutional details, biography all authors

Send to: Jane.Southcott -at- monash.edu


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