Music Making and Civic Imagination…
…is a monograph published by Intellect in autumn 2023, and develops the idea of music making (musicing) as a resource for sustainble development. On this page you’ll find supplementary materials which illustrate some of the ideas in the book and how they’ve come about
The overall ideas in the book are summarised in the Prezi below:
Chapters
Chapter 8: This Musician
In this chapter, I outline how the ideas in the book have developed out of my practice as a musician, in particular the various community projects I’ve led over the last few years. You can view examples of these projects in the video timeline below:
Reviews
“This book has broad and profound implications for the way we think about music. Indeed, if we adopt the grand vision presented in Making Music and Civic Imagination, music is no longer merely something to do, but an ethical and socially-engaged way of being, in which we can all imagine a kinder, fairer, more sustainable future for ourselves and the planet.”
If you enjoyed this book…
Here are my recommendations on Shepherd.com for other books about how being musical helpes us be more human: