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Harmonic Dissidents #2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Columns:

Letters to the Editor: Inquiries, Advice, Corrections & Ideas

Ask Stu, The Fix-It Guy

Welcome Stuart Curtis, our instrument repair guru. You ask, he answers.

Musicians Don’t Just Read Music! Book Review

“The Teaching Musician’s Bible” – Eric Booth’s program for
accommodating our business oriented educational culture
is not a good fit for HONK! musicians, but it has its uses.

Coda

Musician Corps Update: It could be a long haul.

Sound Off Band Reports:

Features:

What is a HONK! Band?

Charlie Keil’s HONK! world view.

Musicking and Monetization

Charlie Keil challenges us to embrace the post-industrial economy. How is that going for you?

Community Music: From “There” to “Here”

Pat Campbell on the growth and practice of Community Music.

Food Not Bombs 30th Anniversary

A movement does not live by bread alone, but it’s a good start – May 23, 2010.

Discussing Band Politics

Montreal’s bicultural Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble explores making your politics heard. By Matt Corks.

Tension Deficit

Charlie Kiel’s got some he will share.

How to Sound Good in the Street

Pete Leinonen’s NOLA basics to busking, ballyhooing and blowing.

HONK! at USSF: Planning Details

If you can’t take your band to Brazil, bring Brazil to your band. Porto Allegre’s World Social Forum will be in Detroit June 22-26, 2010.

Origins and Evolution of The HONK! Festival

Somerville’s veteran organizing committee looks back on four years of
HONK!ing. 1st in a series by Kevin Leppmann.

The Seattle Fandango Project

Street Music from Veracruz, Mexico as told by Shannon Dudley & Martha Gonzalez.