Community-Engaged Performance Tours

Community-Engaged Performance Tours addresses the role of performance touring as a form of classroom and community engagement.

James Spinazzola is Barbara & Richard T. Silver Associate Professor of Music and Director of Winds at Cornell University.

Introduction 1. A Concise History of Community Engagement in Higher Education 2. Traditional and Community-Engaged Performance Tours: From Tourism to Partnership 3. Foundations of a Community-Engaged Performance Tour: Planning and Partnership 4. The Pedagogy of Community-Engaged Performance Tours 5. Case Study: The Cornell Wind Symphony in Haiti and the Dominican Republic 6. The Logistics of Leading a Community-Engaged Performance Tour Epilogue Index