Wind Bands for Hungarian Community Music

Miklós Radócz

doi:10.37441/cejer/2021/3/1/9355

Abstract

The scholarly study of community bands as music communities can be considered a relatively young trend even on an international level. Despite this fact, there is more and more research done on the potential effects they may have on society and music education. Our national literary records on wind bands, however, are mainly focused on their historical background and their legacy in the military. Thus, there is an insufficient amount of information provided on the aspects of sociology and pedagogy. Besides the literary comparison done in our research, we also study the resupply of our national bands in music schools, using available data from the the 2016/2017 Statistical Yearbook of Public Education. This paper serves mainly as a tool of problem identification, laying the groundwork for further researches done in this area.

Highlights

The scholarly study of community bands as music communities can be considered a relatively young trend even on an international level
In relation to music education and brass bands it points out a specific correlation, according to which band members having learned playing on an instrument in a school environment, tend to spend less time on individual practice on average than their fellows, who became involved in music as adults
Social forms of music-making, involving community bands, play a central role in lifelong learning, by that means these form an important part of the key area of adult education as well (Shansky, 2010)

Summary

The place of a community within society

The foremost power of communities is best explained by concepts related to society. Through these the modern contradiction attempting to understand the simultaneous need for belonging somewhere and experiencing freedom becomes clear (Vercseg, 2018). An economic expression, nowadays it is widely used within the terminology of cultural studies researches. It can be interpreted in multiple ways, there might be found many differences in definition even among the well-known figures of the area. In his work titled The Forms of Capital he explains the significance of decisive social benefits, which derive from mutual acquaintances. These resources originating from the social capital can be even of higher level than the possession of cultural capital (Pusztai, 2004)

Communities in music life

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