Community Music and intervention: an approach to the practices of ESElx Community Music students during their internship (2015-2017)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the practices and interventions of the Community Music Degree students from ESELx / ESML in the context of their internship during the academic years 2015-2017. Following recent theoretical discussions on concepts such as Community Music or Intervention, we seek to situate the internship interventions and reflect on the methodology used by the students. In this sense, we highlight the Project Methodology as the main used methodology, namely in the planning, implementation and evaluation phases. The analysis allows us to characterize the interventions in terms of the internship contexts, target audiences, as well as which are the objectives and strategies of the projects. Through data analysis, it is possible to identify the flexibility of this methodology, designed to meet the characteristics of each context and acting as a catalyst for the creative energy of the different target audiences. The research allowed us to conclude that the interventions in this context are closely linked to the project methodology, reflecting the different phases in which it is structured and that it constitutes a central methodological reference in the scope of Community.