Agrigento

Listening

We listen to practitioners and researchers to gather information about issues, needs, and advances in the field

Supporting

We support people doing bold work and connecting practice with research

Sharing

We share knowledge to help those pursuing music as social action around the world

ABOUT US

what we do

Projects we support

CHISPAS MUSICALES ACADEMIA & PROFESSOR GUILLERMO ROSABAL-COTO

Resilience in times of social distancing: Discovering new paradigms of music education

SOUND CONNECTIONS & DR ANNA BULL

The Music Lab: How can music-making practices in Music Education Hubs in England incorporate youth voice?

SOUND SOCIETY & DR PHIL MULLEN

Reflecting difference: An enquiry into the fundamentals of inclusive music pedagogy across four countries in four continents

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Latest blog posts

The Music Lab: A toolkit for exploring youth voice within music-making practices in classical musicMay 24, 2022

In 2019 Dr Anna Bull (University of York) and Jennifer Raven (Deputy Director, Sound Connections) were reflecting on their respective work in music education. They both identified a clear need for more understanding about what Youth Voice looks like within musical practice – from how ensembles and projects are conceptualised to …

Reflections on “Our Histories in the Music of the Barrio”February 22, 2022

Written by Alexandra Patino (SIDOC), Moisés Zamora (SIDOC) and Ian Middleton (Universidad de los Andes) The project "Our Histories in the Music of the Barrio" has come to a successful end, despite a difficult time, even by local standards. Residents of the hillside area of Cali (Colombia) known as Siloé are …

As growing numbers of organisations turn to music as a tool to engage with social agendas and issues, there is a pressing need to better understand how music as social action actually works.

Professor Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

2019 Agrigento survey of practitioners and researchers

Help us build the community

We’re actively building our network, so if you’re involved in music as social action as a practitioner or researcher and you’re interested in reflecting, learning, and sharing, please contact us – we’d love to hear from you.