Community music as a field of practice, pedagogy, and research is swiftly coming of age. The past decade has witnessed an exponential growth in practices, courses, programs, and research, both in classrooms and within the organizations dedicated to the subject. The Oxford Handbook of Community Music gives an authoritative and comprehensive review of what has been achieved in the field to date and what might be expected in the future. This Handbook addresses community music through five focused lenses: contexts, politics, interdisciplinary approaches, education and...

Makes a distinctive contribution to the field of community music through the experiences of music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, and music performance of the volume editors and contributors. Covering a wide range of perspectives the essays raise common themes in terms of the pedagogies and practices used, pointing collectively toward one horizon of approach.