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Community Music Activities commission (ISME)
Music in community centres, prisons and retirement homes; extra-curricular projects for school children and youth; public music schools; community bands, orchestras and choirs; musical projects with asylum seekers; marching bands for street children. All this – and more – comes under the heading of community music. One of the central features of all these activities is that the starting point are always the competencies and ambitions of the participants, rather than the teacher or leader. But a single definition of community music is yet to be found.
As undefined as community music may seem, those working in this field are usually very sure of what it is they are involved in. The Community Music Activities (CMA) commission of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) has been a central meeting point for these professionals by providing a platform for exchange of ideas and experiences. Every two years the commission organises a seminar in the week prior to the ISME world conference. The papers and presentations of the 2002 seminar in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, are published on this site. (See: Conference) For more information about this commission, go to the ISME website.
ISME Homepage: www.isme.org
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