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Vision
We believe that everyone has the right and ability to make, create, and enjoy their own music. We believe that active music-making should be encouraged and supported at all ages and at all levels of society. Community Music activities do more than involve participants in music-making; they provide opportunities to construct personal and communal expressions of artistic, social, political, and cultural concerns. Community Music activities do more than pursue musical excellence and innovation; they can contribute to the development of economic regeneration and can enhance the quality of life for communities. Community Music activities encourage and empower participants to become agents for extending and developing music in their communities. In all these ways Community Music activities can complement, interface with, and extend formal music education structures.
Mission
The commission aims to:
Facilitate the exchange of information on areas relevant to the field of community music.
Encourage debate and dialogue on different international perspectives on community music and on current issues within the field.
Encourage international cooperation.
Where possible enter into dialogue with musicians and music educators in related fields.
Disseminate research and other information.
General information
The commission was established in 1982 (Einar Solbu, Norway, chair) following previous formations as the Education of the Amateur Commission (1974), with Magdalena Stokowska (Poland) as Chair. The name changed to the Out of School Activities Commission in 1976 and was chaired by André Ameller (France) from 1976-1982. The first independent seminar was held in 1988.
Commissioners 2008-2010
Don Coffman (USA) Professor & Head
of Music Education School of Music
306 Communications Center
University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~musiced
Don Coffman is professor and head of music
education at the University of Iowa. He teaches undergraduate courses in
conducting, instrumental methods, and introduction to teaching music. His
graduate courses include the psychology of music and techniques for researching
and measuring musical behaviors. An active researcher in lifelong music
learning, he is the former Chair of MENC’s Adult and Community Special Research
Interest Group. He has served on the editorial board of the Music Educators
National Conference's Journal of Research
in Music Education and on MENC’s Music Education Research Council, the
executive board of the Society for Research in Music Education. His writings
have appeared in the leading music education research journals. Professor
Coffman directs the Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center New Horizons
Band, which provides an opportunity for "chronologically gifted"
adults to learn or reacquaint themselves with wind and percussion instrumental
music. In 2006 he was honored for his work with his New Horizons Band
with The University of Iowa President's Award for State Outreach and Public
Engagement and the State of Iowa Governor’s Volunteer
Award.
Lee Higgins (UK/USA) Associate Professor
Music Education Department
Boston University School of Music
USA
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Lee Higgins was chair
of the International Society of Music Education's (ISME) commission for
Community Music Activity (2006-2008) and joint editor of the International
Journal of Community Music http://www.intellectbooks.com/.
As a community musician he has worked across the education sector as well as
within health settings, prison and probation service, youth and community, and
orchestra outreach. As a musician he plays guitar, mainly electric popular
styles, Brazilian hand held percussion and Cuban congas. He has worked as a
composer, primarily in collaboration with other art forms, particularly dance.
His professional practice embraces a gamut of music genres, most notably samba
drumming, improvisation, pop/rock, and music technology also combining the
non-traditional performance space such as the use of site-specific and
environmental possibilities in performance. In 2009 Lee Higgins has taken up
the position of Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Music.
Sylvia Chong (Singapore) Associate Professor,
Visual & Performing Arts AG
Associate Dean, Programmes Planning & Development,
Foundation Programmes Office
National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University
1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616
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Sylvia
Chong is an associate professor with the Visual and Performing Arts Academic
Group, National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore. She is also the
Associate Dean for Programmes Planning and Development. She is responsible for
the planning and development of all the initial teacher preparation programmes
at NIE. Her main music education interests are in interdisciplinary
studies and mass media and how these support local music
curricula. Her research projects include an interdisciplinary project of
music and language acquisition. She has conducted several school-based
workshops and led the Nanyin Opera Troupe to perform in the 2004
ISME World Conference in Tenerife. Sylvia was a commission
member on Music in Cultural, Educational and Mass Media Policies (1998 -
2002) and is currently a board member for Asia Pacific Symposium on Music
Education Research (APSMER).
Joel Barbosa (Brazil) Universidade Federal
da Bahia
Escola de Música
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Joel Barbosa studied at the Tatuí Conservatory
and UNICAMP. With scholarships from the Braziliam Government, he obtained his
Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Washington, Seattle. His
research includes music education at community bands and in NGO, and clarinet
performance. It has been published by ABEM, ANPPOM and ISME. He wrote the first
Brazilian band method. He was editor of the ABEM and president of the Brazilian
Clarinet Association. As clarinetist, he has appeared as soloist in Brazil,
USA, Austria, Germany and Colombia. He teaches at the School of Music of
Universidade Federal da Bahia and coordinates social projects.
Donald DeVito Sidney Lanier School
312 NW 16th Ave Gainesville,
Florida, 32601
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Dr. Donald DeVito is
the music director at the Sidney Lanier School in the Alachua County School
District in Gainesville, Florida, USA. This school accommodates nearly 300
students from ages 2 to 21 with moderate to profound disabilities including
autism, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome.. Duties at this school include the
founding and teaching of a community music program, high school drumline, a
world music ensemble, research, and general music classes all of which
incorporate students with disabilities. Recent published research includes,
“The Communicative Function of Behavioral Responses to Music: A Precursor to
Assessment for Students With Autism” and “Leading Beyond the Walls: CMA
Interdisciplinary Cooperation Through the Virtual Classroom for Students with
Disabilities Project”. This project links the school with music education and
community music professors at Syracuse University, The Universidad de Londrina
in Brazil, Weber State, the University of North Texas and Group Laiengee, an
ensemble of children with disabilities in Conakry, Guinea in western Africa.
Recent presentations included a variety of workshops at the International
Society for Music Education Conferences in Spain, Singapore, Malaysia, Rome,
and Bologna. Devito is a founding member of the North American Coalition for
Community Music (NACCM) and is on the research committee of the Florida Music
Educators Association amd the review board for Research Perspectives in Music
Education.
Dochy Lichtensztajn Levinsky School of
Music Education, Tel Aviv
Pedagogical Director of the Community Program "Live Music
Encounters".
Dochy Lichtensztajn was born in Buenos Aires,
and since 1968 has lived in Israel. She is a Musicologist (Ph.D. in Musicology,
Tel Aviv University), a Music Educator (Levinsky College of Education, Tel
Aviv), Founder and Musical Director of the Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble "Shiruli", for young concert
audiences (1988-2000). She is the Pedagogical Director of the Levinsky School
of Music Education Community Programme "Live Music Encounters", in
partnership and collaboration with the Keynote
programme (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra), for primary and secondary schools;
the Kadma programme (New Haifa
Symphonic Orchestra), for primary schools; the Musica Viva programme for kindergarten and major music
students in secondary schools; and the Divertimento
Series for adult audiences. In 1993 she founded the Forum for Music Educators
from Major Music Studies in Secondary Schools. Since then a strong professional
relationship was emerging between the Levinsky School of Music Education and
the Forum members. Dochy Lichtensztajn is the creator of the Levinsky School of
Music Education staff of leaders and facilitators for music community
initiatives around the country. Her lectures – for undergraduate and graduate courses
and advanced academic studies for excellent students - include Western Music
History, Jewish Cultural Heritage, Didactic and Methodology for Major Music Dept.
in Secondary schools, Supervision in teacher training, and Community
Initiatives in Music Education.
Past Seminars
Past Seminars
2008 Rome Projects, Perspectives & Conversations
Chair: Lee Higgins
2006 Singapore Creating Partnerships, Making Links, Promoting Change
Chair: Phil Mullen, UK (2004-06)
2004 Tenerife Community Music at the Crossroads
Chair: Pat Shehan Campbell, USA (2002-04)
2002 Rotterdam, The Netherlands Five Themes on Community Music Chair: Huib Schippers, The Netherlands (2000-02)
2000 Toronto, Canada Lived Music, Shared Music Making: Community Music the New Millennium Chair, Kari Veblen, Canada (1998-2000)
1998 Cape Town, South Africa Many Musics-One Circle
Chair: Betsy Oehrle, South Africa (1996-98)
1996 Liverpool, UK Here Comes the 21st Century-The Challenges to the Future Chair: David Price, UK (1994-96)
1994 Athens, Georgia, USA The Role of Community Music in a Changing World
Chair: Tim Joss, UK (1992-94)
1992 Auckland, New Zealand The Role of the Music Educator in the Multicultural Society Chair: John Drummond, New Zealand (1990-92)
1990 Oslo, Norway Training Musicians and Music Educators to Meet Community Needs Chair: Ingrid Olseng, Norway (1988-90)
1988 Wellington, New Zealand Community Music-Interaction between Amateurs and Professionals Chair: Einar Solbu, Norway (1982-88)
Publications
D.
Coffman (Ed.). (2009). CMA XI: Projects, Perspectives & Conversations:
Proceedings from the International Society for Music Education (ISME) 2008
Seminar of the Commission for Community Music Activity. Tel Aviv, Israel:
International Society for Music Education.
D.
Coffman & L. Higgins (Eds.), (2006). Creating Partnerships, Making Links,
and Promoting Change: Proceedings from the International Society for Music
Education (ISME) 2006 Seminar of the Commission for Community Music Activity.
Singapore: International Society for Music Education.
Leglar, M. (Ed.), (1996). The Role of Community
Music in a Changing World: Proceedings of the International Society for Music
Education 1994 Seminar of the Commission on Community Music Activity. Athens,
Georgia, USA: International Society for Music Education.
Don Coffman (USA) 
Lee Higgins (UK/USA)
Sylvia Chong (Singapore) 
Joel Barbosa (Brazil) 
Donald DeVito
Dochy Lichtensztajn