Abstract:
Music-kings and -queens are musicians who facilitate experiences
in spaces where community music (CM) and music education
(MusEd) make music. These musicians lead and facilitate
musicking to enrich people’s music, social and cultural lives.
This paper specifically explores two diverse projects occupying
in-between musicking spaces that have been created by CM
musicians and school learners. By recording and analysing
the views, opinions, thoughts, feelings and experiences of CM
musicians about their experiences in the in-between space with a
view to possible collaboration with MusEd teachers in schools, this
narrative inquiry uses vignettes to investigate how these musical
monarchs create musicking experiences. However more than
teaching skills, how they build social capital and promote social
justice by making musicking accessible to children that are often
excluded from music education in formal settings. The outcome is
the model of the musicking umbrella that illustrates the coalesence;
interconnectedness and relational nature of the in-between space.
The musicking umbrella overarches all three musicking spaces
and highlights the role of the community musician or music
educator. While the practice of musicking is the rationale for the
existence of the in-between space where creativity, innovation, and
collaboration fuse and transform, adopting the appropriate learning
approach help achieve authentic learning. This is combined with
building social capital through networking in the community to
empower and nurture people and contribute to social justice.
