Camlin, D. A. and Clements, H. and Perkins, R. (2025) Towards the civic conservatoire. In: Inside the Contemporary Conservatoire: Critical Perspectives from the Royal College of Music, London. Routledge. ISBN 9781032251066 (hardback) 9781032251059 (paperback) 9781003281573 (e-book)
Abstract
This chapter starts from the premise that a civic conservatoire must include a civic community. This requires dialogue across the institution that encourages questioning and critical interrogation of what we do, why we do it, and hence what our relevance and function are in society. This necessitates thinking beyond the ‘rational community’, finding ways to enable quieter, dissenting, or hidden voices to be heard. In this chapter, we explore what a dialogic approach could offer the conservatoire and provide three examples of work that might (constructively) disturb the conservatoire’s rational community. We conclude with some critical reflections on infrastructures to support the civic conservatoire.
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