ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how community Music therapy appropriates the social-musical affordances of its contexts and how these contexts in turn appropriate the affordances of Community Music Therapy. The words address the entire Eersterust community: the youngsters involved in crime, as well as those who are supposed to be responsible for social order. Carol Lotter says that despite her own expertise in music therapy work, she is aware of her lack of expertise when it comes to local music genres and events. Her own music therapy expertise is unattuned to Eersterust, and needs refining and elaborating for her work with the young folk at Youth Development Outreach. Musical action generates friendship based on having fun, on co-operating and on learning, where everyday life fails to provide for the kinds of friendships. The performance alters the social relationships in Heideveld for some hours – generating another kind of social network, based on collective musicing that is both fun and very serious.
