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Record W4411114849 · doi:10.1386/ijcm_00121_2

Editorial: On sustaining and diversifying community music

2025· editorial· en· W4411114849 on OpenAlex
Roger Mantie

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Community Music · 2025
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiverse Musicological Studies
Canadian institutionsThe Scarborough HospitalUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCognitive sciencePsychologySociologyCommunicationAestheticsArt

Abstract

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Issue 18:1 of the International Journal of Community Music includes articles that address diversity and financial sustainability in community music activity. Research by MacGregor and Pitts examines the problem of declining membership in recreational choirs in the United Kingdom and how this may reveal unfavourable attitudes and commitments to diversity and inclusion. The study by Crooke and associates draws attention to disparities in funding and support for practitioners and participants from racialized groups in Australia participating in an intercultural music programme. Allison and associates examine ‘facilitators and barriers to sustainment’ of community choir programming in the United States. Among their recommendations are to explore organizations outside of traditional government arts funders, such as ageing services organizations. Cassman’s study of the Fresh Tracks programme for ‘justice-involved young adults’ in California demonstrates that even when programming is sufficiently funded, participation levels may be low if structural conditions such as location and transportation are not sufficiently addressed. The large-scale study by Castro-Cifuentes and associates demonstrates that, while other motivators may also be at play, musical motivations provide a strong sense of purpose and identity for community music practitioners.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.063
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0000.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.120
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.181 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it