Veblen, K. K., S. J. Messenger, M. Silverman and D. J. Elliott. 2013. Community Music Today. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Education. ISBN 978-1-60709- 320-6 (pbk). 315 pp.

Author Biography

• Julie Rickwood, Australian National University

  Julie Rickwood is a music and performance researcher and practitioner based in Canberra, Australia. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University. Her research has concentrated on community choirs. In 1997 Julie completed a master’s thesis entitled “Liberating Voices: Towards an ethnography of women’s community a cappella choirs in Australia” which examined the intersection of gender, identity and singing. She more recently completed a doctoral research project, “We Are Australian: An ethnographic investigation of the convergence of community music and reconciliation” which focused on a study of three cross-cultural choral interactions in Australia. Julie has presented at national and international conferences and has been published in a number of peer reviewed and community journals.