- Title
- Empowering ensembles: Music and world-building past and present
- Creator
- English, Helen J.
- Relation
- Together in Music: Coordination, Expression, Participation p. 227-235
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860761.003.0028
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- This chapter explores how membership of a music ensemble can empower participants across a range of dimensions: Purpose, connections, achievement, and identity formation. In a Western context, empowerment is often linked to agency, purpose, and self-esteem. Agency and purpose are raised through the goals and educational aspects of music ensembles. Self-esteem is linked to achievement, frequently flowing during music ensemble experiences. Connection, another key aspect of empowerment, includes connections to others, the past, and lost selves. For migrants and refugees, the connection is often to a past self and a relinquished land and culture. The research studies reviewed in this chapter encompass the homeless, prisoners, migrants, refugees, and older adults. Expanding from the reviewed work, the chapter looks at historical examples to discuss how music ensembles helped Australian settler communities create their worlds and shows how findings from these historical music ensembles can inform research into music communities today.
- Subject
- community music; empowerment; choir; ensemble; colonial music
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1488190
- Identifier
- uon:52373
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780198860761
- Language
- eng
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