#community-music

#community-music

When Juri de Marco lifts his hand and plays a note on his small pocket trumpet, people start singing and making music in concert halls and on the street. There's no sheet music necessary; following his hand gestures allow people find their way to a shared sound that's all their own. What de Marco makes is known as community music. "In high-classical music culture, it's all about perfection, interpretation and fidelity to the score," de Marco tells DW.

I don't learn about music from record shops or curated playlists. I discover it on muddy football pitches in east London, with the smell of chips drifting from the van at half-time; in rented cricket halls in Bradford where there is always a giant urn of tea bubbling in the corner. The sounds that have shaped me as a Black British person aren't designed by algorithms or commissioned by labels.

Students in Levittown often flock to Harry S. Truman High School to pick up a pair of drumsticks and a bucket.