Musical groups and organisations shape and are shaped by their localities in a plurality of ways, reaching in and through communities to achieve tangible and intangible impacts. This one-day symposium, hosted by the Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC) and the Urban Institute, brings together academic and practitioner networks from across the arts, humanities and social sciences to ask:
You can find out more about Professor Pitts’s research into local communities and leisure time music groups by reading her recent ‘Making Music, Making Communities’ report, produced in conjunction with a leading UK organisation for voluntary music, Making Music.