This podcast explores music production as a form of youth work and how the benefits have been quantified and reported. Ian McGimpsey speaks to Frances Howard (Nottingham Trent University), Brian McShane (Coventry University) and Simon Glenister (Noise Solution) about how music shapes and structures youth – both constructing and characterising the experiences of diverse groups of young people – and goes on to question how these impacts have been measured, and could be measured in future.
Our panel bring their expertise concerning a range of practices that vary in aims and context, and the different conceptual and methodological approaches that can be taken to understanding and representing the value of music production as an educative process for young people and communities.