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The golden age ensemble: a community music partnership

The golden age ensemble: a community music partnership
The golden age ensemble: a community music partnership
This chapter describes the golden age ensemble project, a partnership between a local university and a senior citizen centre. The project involved retired adults and university music education students from Hong Kong. The ensemble rehearsed weekly for a variety of repertoires including local pops and traditional music. They performed regularly for civic events. The chapter explores the effects of this collaborative music intervention on social support and perceptions of self-efficacy among individuals experiencing instability brought about by their retirement status. Moreover, the study also shows that a reciprocal relationship between students and retired adults is possible. This intervention plays an important role in enriching the cultural life of the students. Instead of focusing on a one directional ‘giver-receiver’ approach, we should celebrate co-beneficiaries working with and for each other.
183-196
Routledge
Lam, Chi Ying
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de Bruin, Leon
Southcott, Jane
Lam, Chi Ying
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de Bruin, Leon
Southcott, Jane

Lam, Chi Ying (2022) The golden age ensemble: a community music partnership. In, de Bruin, Leon and Southcott, Jane (eds.) Musical Ecologies : Instrumental Music Ensembles Around the World. 1st ed. London. Routledge, pp. 183-196. (doi:10.4324/9781003254508-16).

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This chapter describes the golden age ensemble project, a partnership between a local university and a senior citizen centre. The project involved retired adults and university music education students from Hong Kong. The ensemble rehearsed weekly for a variety of repertoires including local pops and traditional music. They performed regularly for civic events. The chapter explores the effects of this collaborative music intervention on social support and perceptions of self-efficacy among individuals experiencing instability brought about by their retirement status. Moreover, the study also shows that a reciprocal relationship between students and retired adults is possible. This intervention plays an important role in enriching the cultural life of the students. Instead of focusing on a one directional ‘giver-receiver’ approach, we should celebrate co-beneficiaries working with and for each other.

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Published date: 11 November 2022

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Local EPrints ID: 476451
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/476451
PURE UUID: 5f765648-c017-4d27-8940-51dca662c2f6
ORCID for Chi Ying Lam: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7338-6483

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Date deposited: 02 May 2023 15:12
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 02:13

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Author: Chi Ying Lam ORCID iD
Editor: Leon de Bruin
Editor: Jane Southcott

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