Paper Title
THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING A MUSIC KING COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE: CASE SERIES PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSIONS

Abstract
Musicking is an old and new concept of musical community construction originally introduced by Small (1998). In musicking practice, whether by performing, by listening, by rehearsing, by composing, by dancing, and even by supporting others, to music is for everyone to participate in any capacity of musical lives (Small, 1998).The authors strived to construct the practice model of musickingin the past decade in Japanese K-12 schools and teacher training courses at the university level. In musicking, we encourage cross-functional teams, reflective practice and fluid work groups based on the direction of community of practice and the management model fostering the self-managing and human-friendly knowledge and skill sharing. This study applies the concept of musicking into the field of business management with a special emphasis on how people relate to each other in an improvisational manner, and individuals make decisions ongoingly in uncertain situations. Specifically, the study analyzes the process of the author created musicking practice in Japanese field of music teacher trainingby applying the video-cued multivocal ethnography（Tobin, Hsueh &Karasawa, 2009）, and seek a possibility of implementing the author created practice model into the field of business management interdisciplinary. Like the Orpheus Process was implemented in the realm of business in old days and fostered shared responsibility that support cooperative and collaborative work environment, we aim to overcome the managerial paradox inherent in communities of practice and nurtured them by analyzing the practice model of musicking.