If all the arguments about community music that have raged around Australia for the past 15 years or so were laid end to end, they would stretch from the Sydney Opera House to the Hobart Casino, from the Boggabrai Light Opera Company to the Geraldton Recorder Group, from the Rockhampton Youth Orchestra to the Busselton Trade Union Choir and back, forming a veritable spider web tapestry of case histories that neither prove nor disprove any one definition of what community music is or is not.