Source note · R095
‘You Can’t Step Twice’: Thinking more about community music
An editorial revisits tensions around learning, policy and durable community relationships.
- Setting
- Related music & arts
- Kind of evidence
- Reviews & synthesis
- Review extent
- Appraisal and selected source sections checked
What was studied
An editorial introduces a special issue responding to Lee Higgins’s Thinking Community Music and frames tensions within the field.
What it contributes
Mantie frames professionalization, formal learning, policy instrumentalization, facilitation and durable community relationships as unresolved tensions; no Oklahoma-specific evidence.
Where the evidence stops
Editorial synthesis, not independent empirical research. Describes tensions around academicization, instrumental policy use, cultural democracy, facilitation and relationship depth; do not treat as an outcome study.
About this review
The accepted research appraisal was compared with the supplied text, including bibliographic and study-design details. This production check is not a fresh audit of every table, appendix or cited study.
Bibliographic details checked against the supplied work. A linked source provides the public retrieval route.
Source note updated September 9, 2026. Read our approach to evidence.