Community Music

What is it?

• Is it a sound?
• A style?
• Certain instruments?
• Pop or Country?

Community Music is Music As Hospitality

And. . .

Friendliness, warm reception, welcome, helpful, neighbourliness, warmth, kindness, courtesy, generosity, EMPATHY

Community Music is determined by "with whom?" and "for whom?"

Element of Community Music

• Social
• Cultural
• Contemplative
• Relational - Intergenerational, Self to Group, Ontological, cross-cultural, class, race, ethnicity
• Social Justice - Activitism
• Empathetic

Old Models and the Way Forward:
Let's Look at Activism and Money

Avoid the road to Panic