My new book, Musicking in a relational key: music education and community music for a time of metacrisis, is now publicly available. The book is open access and available for free download in three languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese) at https://musrelkey.pubpub.org/. It can be read online or downloaded as a formatted PDF. There are also discussion…
I realize with some consternation that I have not published a blog post in a year. However, that’s not because I haven’t been writing, but rather because I’ve been writing largely in private. I sat down about a year ago to write a keynote speech, and before I knew it I had 20,000 words -…
I recently published a feature article in Classical Music magazine entitled El Sistema at 50: the rise and fall (and rise again?) of Venezuela’s controversial music programme. You may need to register to read it, but it’s quick and free. Below is a Spanish translation of the article. *** El Sistema a los 50: Auge…
Musicking in a Relational Key: Music Education and Community Music for a Time of Metacrisis was published in June 2026 as an open access book (free to download) in three languages (English, Spanish, and Portuguese).
This book examines music education and community music through the lens of relationality. Engaging critically with prominent ideas in these fields and presenting case studies from Latin America, the book argues for a reorientation at a time of overlapping ecological, social, and political crises – or metacrisis.
Rethinking Social Action Through Music has been published in Spanish translation as Replanteando la acción social por la música (also open access, free to download).
Now also available in Portuguese translation here (free download).
A summary of El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth in Spanish can now be found on the page El Sistema – key resources.
At present, I am Director of Research at Agrigento, emeritus professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a visiting research fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. For further information, see my biography and publications.
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