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MUSIC TEACHER
20 October 2020
Participate in Guildhall’s latest
research: Music for Social Impact
Guildhall School of Music & Drama has launched a new multi-country survey
aimed at musicians who have recently worked in socially engaged settings as
part of a three-year investigation entitled Music for Social Impact:
practitioners’ contexts, work, and beliefs.
The project examines the growing number of participatory music-making activities
being offered to groups around the world, defined by factors such as their social
needs or deprivation.
These activities focus on marginalised or excluded groups such as in regions of
poverty, conflict or social disruption, mental or physical impairment, people in prison
or those who are homeless, and assist participants to perform music for its intrinsic
value, as well as helping them to achieve defined social goals such as inclusion,
empowerment, community building or activism.
Due to the impact of COVID-19, participants should base their answers on any
relevant experience in the last five years. It is hoped that the research will provide
