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Community Music in Contested Spaces: Towards Abolition
Erika Severyns argues that if community music is to contribute meaningfully to abolitionist futures, community musicians must move beyond the language of empowerment and inclusion and towards structural critique. This means situating our practice explicitly within the context of carcerality rather than sidestepping the political conditions that shape our work.