The Efficacy of Community Music Education Programmes Towards Youth Development and Audience Development: A Case of Buskaid Soweto String Project
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2022-03
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Abstract
The increasing number of community music education projects in South Africa has risen in the last two decades. Due to the sheer rising interest in the positive outcomes of these projects, previously underprivileged areas now have access to music education and a diverse range of musical opportunities. This research report assesses the efficacy of community music education programmes of the Buskaid Soweto String Project towards youth and audience development. The report used the Buskaid Soweto String Project as a case study done through interviews. The results attained from qualitative research conducted, have shown that the training programme administered by the Buskaid Soweto String Project yields good and positive results toits students. In addition, the success of the music education programmes has a favourable effect on audience development. Data collected, revealed interesting themes relating to the efficacy of music
education programmes by Buskaid. The most notable outcome and results isthe direction and incentive the project provides to its participants and other existing and forthcoming community music projects. This research results also facilitate and create new study and research prospects in the field of music education in previously disadvantaged communities.
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Research report submitted to Wits School of the Arts, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Arts in the field of Cultural Policy & Management in the Department of Cultural Policy and Management, in 2022.
Keywords
Music education, Audience development, Community music, Youth development, Buskaid Soweto String Project, Community music education projects in South Africa, UCTD
Citation
Thango, Simangaliso Siyathemba. (2022). The Efficacy of Community Music Education Programmes Towards Youth Development and Audience Development: A Case of Buskaid Soweto String Project. [Master's dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/38923