Putting the Orchestra in its Place: Partnership, Community and the Dynamics of Collaboration at the Manchester Camerata's 'new home' in Gorton

该项目旨在研究曼彻斯特管弦乐团在社区工作中的合作动态，特别是与地方和社区调解古典音乐、记忆和归属感的方式有关。该项目的时机选择是为了利用和研究卡梅拉塔与戈顿社区之间关系的新阶段，因为经过七年的合作，它现在在那里的修道院有了一个永久的家。在Camerata和曼彻斯特大学之间成功和长期的合作关系的基础上，该项目将利用Camerata的专业知识和过去的经验来提出以下首要问题：哪些因素支撑着那些为Camerata工作、与Camerata一起和/或参与其项目的人对修道院和作为一个地方的Gorton做出反应的方式？该项目将与越来越多的学术团体接触，这些学术团体研究了古典音乐组织在EDI倡议、扩大参与、拓展、音乐社区、城市重建和音乐教育方面的方法，其中许多问题充其量给古典音乐界提出了令人不快的问题。通过对协作动态本身进行批判性研究，该项目植根于民族音乐学方法，在概念上(侧重于社区和地点)和实践上(在实地工作方法方面)。

This project seeks to examine the dynamics of collaboration in the community work undertaken by the chamber orchestra Manchester Camerata, specifically as it relates to the ways in which place and community mediate classical music, memory and belonging. The project is timed to take advantage of, and research, a new phase in the relationship between the Camerata and the community in Gorton, as after seven years of collaboration it now has a permanent home there at The Monastery. Building on the successful and longstanding partnership between the Camerata and the University of Manchester, the project will draw on the Camerata's expertise and past experience to ask the following overarching question: what factors underpin the ways in which those who work for the Camerata, with the Camerata and/or participate in its projects respond to the Monastery and to Gorton as a place?The project will engage with the growing body of scholarship that has investigated classical-music organisations' approach to EDI initiatives, widening participation, outreach, music community, urban regeneration, and music education, much of which poses questions for the classical-music world that are, at best, uncomfortable. By producing a critical study on the dynamics of collaboration that is itself collaborative, the project is rooted in ethnomusicological methodologies, both conceptually (in terms of a focus on community and place) and practically (in terms of fieldwork methods).