Edited by Andrew Brown: Musicianship is considered to be a person’s ability to perceive, understand and create sonic experiences. Musicianship involves awareness of musical features, the facility to articulate and interpret these features and their effect, and a capacity to demonstrate musical understanding through analysis, imitation and generation.
The International Council for Caring Communities
Dear Colleagues, We would like to share with you the UN website where our compendium has now been posted. Please share it with others! Patrick Schmidt, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Music Education Westminster Choir College – Rider University
Book: 1 in the Meaningful Music Making for Life Series
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und this book inspiring, and allowed myself to stop at different places of interest in order to critically explore andfurther enjoy them. In my view, the major innovation of Dillon’s book is his departure for developing his vision of music education through children.” Laor, L. (2010). “On the seashore of endless worlds, children play” Dillon’s Music, meaning and transformation: A review essay. IJEA. Purchase
Book: 3 in the Meaningful Music Making for Life Series
The chapters in this book form a persuasive chorus of social practices that advocate the use of music to build a capacity for resilience in individuals and groups. As a whole they exemplify music projects that share common features aligned with an ecological view of reform in health, education and social work systems. Purchase
We rarely have the opportunity and time to engage with the practicalities of music teaching through the lens of evidence based practice. This book provides us with a wonderful exception that is accessible to beginning and established teachers. It contains a wide range of stimulating and thought provoking material that draws on real-world experiences and events, which are contextualised, informed and structured by theory. This is a powerful combination that we can visit again and again for insight and inspiration. Congratulations to all involved, particularly the editors for shaping such a valuable contribution!” —Professor Graham F. Welch. Purchase
Meaningful Music Making for Life Series Editors: Steve Dillon and Liz Mackinlay The CSP Meaningful music making for life series considers music making and its effects as a lifetime pursuit. Each book examines the role and tensions of music-makers across ages and in the locations where meaningful engagement with music making takes place. Whilst it is philosophically an exploration of the notions of meaningful engagement presented in the first book of the series – Music, Meaning and Transformation, it undertakes this process from a global perspective and in a phenomenological exploration of this theory.
The save to DISC (Documenting Innovation in Sound Communities) Research Network examines and documents the qualities and relationships between music, meaning, cognitive and social benefit, health and well being. The research focuses upon meaningful engagement with music making in schools and communities.
It is with deepest sympathy and sadness that Musicians in Australia mourn the loss of Inspirational composer and teacherStephen Stanfield. Our sympathy go to his wife Liesl and children Harrison and Genevieve and family. Stephen’s work as a composer of electronic and orchestral music was always innovative and his teaching Inspired many musicians and teachers.
Week 12 at the Detention Centre.
The psychotherapists call it a parallel process: here I sit trying to describe the process of this morning without sounding the same as my last narrative – the one before and probably the one before that. Repetitive sameness. Detainees at Pinkenba tell us that for them, every day is the same. They see the same faces. The food is good but it’s often the same. The clothes they wear. The conversations they have. Same hopes. Same waiting. Same “no news today” message.
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Dear scattered embracers of freedom,
Week 11 at the Detention Centre: SERCO activities officer Nicole Teo met us at the entrance to explain more stringent Government requirements – we had to be scanned coming in and going out – arms wide, legs apart, turn around please. Not sure what this is about. Darran Williams, Aboriginal Youth Suicide Counsellor from Gallang Place came with us today for the first time. It was a disconcerting introduction. Nicole was apologetic.
We all made light of it though. Detention Centres located elsewhere in Australia have a different management culture it seems – less collaborative and less attentive to the needs of the detainees. The new guidelines which include tightened security are to be implemented in all Centres across the country. We consider ourselves fortunate in Pinkenba.
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Jam2jam is spreading fast around the world at the moment. Innovative teachers, curators and Community musicians and artist are using it in wonderful ways to connect people through networked Improvisational musical environments. From jam2jam AV to Jam2jam XO the experience of jam2jam is resonating with users as an experience that leads to meaningful engagement.
