Reflections on the second APCMN Seminar in Tokyo

This article is a reflective report on the second seminar of the Asia Pacific Community Music Network (APCMN). Held over two days in July 2015, over 30 participants from seven countries assembled at Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo to discuss Community Music and the various ways it manifests itself in this vast region. Spread over the two days were 23 paper presentations, a workshop and special welcome concert organized and performed by students from the college’s Music Education Department. Overall, response to the event was positive, an important outcome being that the network will endure, with plans underway to hold a third seminar.