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Finding Your Authentic Community in the Music World

All of the concepts around authenticity inside of yourself also relate to your authenticity as a community. Your story is a big part of this, as your story helps you find your community and, as my colleague Michael Thurber says, your tribe. In life, we move along from one career to the next. We move along from one day to the next. During all of this, who are the people that we reach out to all the time? Those people are our community.

The final project for my class, “Creating a Compelling Live Performance, Part Two.” is centered around booking a show, inviting friends and creating an evening-length performance. The most important part of the show is figuring out how many people can attend and what venue will make the best setting. My students really have to question who their community is and how many people will be willing to come out. This practice can be really challenging for some of them, because it can be difficult to know how many people—how many friends and family members—are willing to pay money to watch them perform live.

For me, developing a community is all about finding the ways in which we unite together. They can be historical, political or emotional, but all of these ways that we are self-aware within our community can bring us together closer and closer.

In my case, it has really been political, finding a connection that we are all driving towards. For example, feminism was, for me, a huge way to create and maintain a community, because it led me to people who wanted to be smart, academic and intellectual, and also have fun. Together, we developed a sound as a community and set up shows with each other’s bands. More and more people started showing up because they needed it. They needed this historically. They needed a place to come together. So, let’s create a space where we want to come together.

To learn the skills and concepts for creating a community in the music industry, both standard music education and online music education are great places to begin.

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