Abstract
Abstract The Norwegian Municipal Music and Art Schools (MMAS) hold an important function in the Norwegian society, providing education and cultural activities on a weekly basis for some 103,000 kids. This article discusses the MMAS in the light of Community Music values. Orienting the discussion around three focal themes – Access and participation, Social aspects and Frames and flexibility – the article identifies both resemblances and contrasts between community music and MMAS practice and philosophy. A recently published curriculum plan for the MMAS is addressed and discussed in the article, and it is claimed that this new curriculum plan pulls the field in a direction towards more community like practice. This may imply a new perspective on what should be the MMAS’ core activities, and from that also follows that there might be a need for new and more relevant competences among the teachers.
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