Table of contents : Contents CHAPTER 1. Community Music in the Asia Pacific: An Introduction PART I. Maintaining and Evolving Traditions in Community Music Making CHAPTER 2. Mapping Community Music Development in Timor-Leste CHAPTER 3. Conserving Knowledge and Language Practices of Singing Cultures in Low-lying Pacific Islands CHAPTER 4. Transmitting Japanese Folk Song: Strategies for Nationalizing the Local and Taking It into Schools CHAPTER 5. Child’s Play? Teaching and Learning in Fijian Sigidrigi CHAPTER 6. Gathering to Study: The Case of the Myōan Shakuhachi’s Benkyō-kai CHAPTER .7 Hei te pō, hei te ao-Singing in the Dark: The Revival of an Indigenous Teaching Methodology PART II. Broader Social Justice Considerations and Interdisciplinary Intersections CHAPTER 8. Developing a Performance Involving People with Intellectual Challenges during the 2012 Beijing Traditional Music Festival CHAPTER 9. Community Music Therapy: From the Clinical to Community CHAPTER 10. Exchange and Common Ground: “The Big Sing in the Desert” CHAPTER 11. Transforming Lives: Exploring Eight Ways of Learning in Arts-based Service Learning with Australian Aboriginal Communities CHAPTER 12. Emergence, Care, and Sustainability: A Community Arts Project in Early Childhood Education PART III. Connecting Community Music to Teaching and Learning Contexts CHAPTER 13. Step Outside and Bring in the World: A Wealth of Community Musics at Your Doorstep CHAPTER 14. Shuo Chang as Burdens in Song: Xinyao and Education Communities of Practice in Singapore CHAPTER 15. The Community Band Experience in Singapore through Two Lenses: The Local and the Expatriate CHAPTER 16. How a Music Program Can Build and Sustain a Community CHAPTER 17. Techniques and Tools for Music Learning in Australian Community Choirs CHAPTER 18. Engaging with Sax beyond Conservatoire Walls: The Community Activities of the Queensland Conservatorium Saxophone Orchestra About the Contributors Index