Radical acts of community music

This edition of Sounding Board jounal has been a long time coming. During years of off-topic side talks at community music events we frequently found ourselves returning to a particular topic and questions, such as: ‘Are we following in the footsteps of where community music came from?’; ‘How have we evolved?’; ‘Have we shifted into something else?’; and if so, ‘What have we gained and what have we lost along the way?’ ; 'Are we mainstream now when we used to be on the fringes?' - AND if that is the case, 'Is there still a ‘fringeness’ to our practice?'; 'If we were on the fringe, does that necessarily mean we were radical?';  'Are these questions even relevant for community musicians today?'. And finally, 'How do our practices as community musicians and those we observe connect with a particular, well-walked, but often elusive insistence that the field is a ‘radical practice’?'.  

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