The Social/Cultural Economy of Community Music: Realizing Spectacle

Authors

Cathy Benedict, University of Western Ontario, CanadaFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2008

Journal

CMA XI: Projects, Perspectives, and Conversations

First Page

118

Last Page

127

Abstract

In this paper I think through the problems and contradictions embedded in community music engagements in post capitalistic society. I consider the possibility that even as community music seeks to afford spaces so that musical engagements and practices remain diverse and multiple, this diversity may be serving the hegemonic unity of capitalism and may, in some cases be reproducing the systems of inequity community music specifically wishes to challenge.

Notes

Proceedings from the International Society for Music Education (ISME) 2008 Seminar of the Commission for Community Music Activity.

Openly accessible at https://www.isme.org/sites/default/files/documents/2008%2BCMA%2BProceedings%20%281%29.pdf