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Community Music Making: Challenging the Stereotypes of Conventional Music Education by Kari Veblen10/2/2016 I'm interested in the comunity bands as a whole. I've known about them in my town but never joined one. I would like to join one because of the amount of diversity they have in the repretoire aswell as the musicians themselves. As the author mentioned, there are ethnic/preservation groups that I believe would be interesting to experience as opposed to the traditional 'band' music that I worked on in high school.
I am surprised about how much you can do in a community ensemble. The author mentioned that community bands go out and have non-profit events or that there are commnity music schools. I've never given them much thought, in fact I felt like they were below me in a sense because I assumed that they were not structured well enough, or that they don't play music that meets my standards as a music. But, after hearing my friends talk about it in class, as well as reading this article, I came to realise that I missed a lot about community music. I'm frustrated that these groups don't get as much attention as high school groups. I know that specifically my high school music program was able to get more than enough money from the government/school board as well as from student fundraising but, Dr. Veblen mentions that certain organisations are not funded by the government and depend entirely on fundrasing. I appreciate that Dr. Veblen was able to bring community bands into persvective for me as now I am very curious about them and I plan to join one either in London or in my home town over the summer to keep up my practicing!
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