Can Community Music Contribute to More Equitable Societies? A Critical Interpretive Synthesis
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Heard, Emma
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This article presents outcomes from a critical interpretive synthesis inquiry exploring whether community music can contribute to more equitable societies. Drawing on 74 cross-disciplinary articles, we identify equity-related outcomes across three key categories: outcomes to improve the immediate wellbeing and life trajectories for individuals experiencing disadvantage; outcomes relating to the development of skills, knowledge and understandings empowering individual participants to enact positive social change within their communities; and outcomes with the potential to affect the root causes of social inequity. This review provides a solid foundation for further conceptual and theoretical development within and beyond the fields of social justice research and community music. Our findings will also be helpful for translating the creative and cultural benefits that community music practice could bring to addressing social justice issues in a wide range of complex contexts.
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Social Justice Research
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37
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2
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Bartleet, B-L; Heard, E, Can Community Music Contribute to More Equitable Societies? A Critical Interpretive Synthesis, Social Justice Research, 2024, 37 (2), pp. 180-204