Youth Music Gatherings, Pedagogy, Experience, and Impact

This book seeks to understand Ethno, a residential folk, world, and traditional music programme for young people that has been in existence for over 30 years. Three lines of enquiry guide the work, pedagogy and professional development, participant experience, and the impact it had upon those who attended. 24 b&w illus.

A PDF version of this book will be available for free in Open Access: here. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License and is part of Knowledge Unlatched.

Lee Higgins is director of the International Centre of Community Music at York St John University, UK. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Thinking Community Music. Sarah-Jane Gibson is an ethnomusicologist and lecturer in music at York St John University, UK. She is the author of Building Community Choirs in the Twenty-First Century: Re-imagining Identity through Singing in Northern Ireland, also published by Intellect.