ABSTRACT
Personal empowerment and agency can both build on the possibility of control and shared ownership through participation, not only in the act of music-making but also in the organization of the music project. One of the findings, as well as focus, of this research is that when such participation is missing or limited, it can limit the development and transformative processes of youth participating in such social programmes, and therefore also seriously limit the role music-making can play in such processes. The research in this book centred around the question of how music-making could have social impacts (SIMM) and was therefore also interested in the positions held by the musicians on the organizational side of the social music projects. Their internal organization and governance are an important line of inquiry of this research.
