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Examining meaningful engagement : musicology and virtual music making environments
No full textThe metaphor of ‘Islands’ can be used to describe present and virtual music making contexts in the twenty-first-century. The solid foundation of established islands of musical knowledge and traditional contexts for making music that exists in a sea of human values and practices can be seen against virtual islands that rise out of the sea and disappear depending on the tide. This paper suggests that virtual and present islands can be bridged and understood by using musicological methodologies. The study builds on an ongoing examination of meaningful engagement in the production of music curriculum and experience design of music software learning environments. It examines the adaptation of musicological strategies for research in these fields. The study reports upon the use of musicological analysis of music making processes and communities as it is applied to music making using software/computer instruments in community music projects. Primarily the paper describes how musicological and ethno-musicological research strategies have been adapted to observe, evaluate and create meaningful and engaging environments for music learning that enable interactive engagement. The paper serves as a preliminary methodological meta study that examines a series of music projects involving youth community music and the effects of music making on social and cultural inclusion and the creation of musical environments utilising improvisation on a computer network. This project presents a ‘contemporary musicianship’, which embraces the computer as instrument, the network as ensemble and cyberspace as venue. These virtual islands are explored using musicological strategies for musical analysis in software design and ethno-musicological methods for ethically observing and documenting multi-cultural and urban Indigenous music communities. Musicology provides a bridge between our understanding of music making on present and virtual islands
Awash in a Sea of Possibilities: Anchoring a 21st Century Music Business
No full textThis paper explores the musicological environment in the 21st century from a business perspective. It begins to theorise recent changes to the industrial context in which independent musicians find themselves and the prospects for New Media to assist them to build a sustainable musical living in a way that was not possible under the 20th century industry models. Then, reporting on a survey of self-described ‘independent’ musicians, it begins to define a nascent “musical middle class” of musicians whose careers are benefiting from those changes
Meaningful engagement with music technology
No full textThis paper examines philosophical tenets drawn from doctoral research into the meaning of music to children and applies these philosophical principles of personal, the social and cultural meaning to the development of interactive generative music making software for children. The presentation argues that there are implications for the design of expressive music making tools/instruments that may be transferable to'auditing' the meaning gained when using music technology in the production of music
Remembrances and relationships: rethinking collaboration in ethnomusicology as ethical and decolonising practice
No full textThe affect of writing to it:A collaborative response to encountering Deleuze for the first time
Get PDFThis chapter presents the refrains of collaborative writing in response to a workshop presented by Professor Jonathan Wyatt (Edinburgh University) on the ideas and writings of Deleuze and Guattari at the University of Queensland’s DRAW (Departing Radically in Academic Writing) retreat held on Minjerribah in December 2020. In this piece, we share our encounter with the words, language and theories of Deleuze and Guattari as calls and responses in between twos and aim to share the ‘affect’ of ‘writing to it’. For many of us, this was our first encounter with the post-structuralist duo and, rather than enter into discussion about their work per se, we share here the ‘affect’ of listening to Jonathan speak about Deleuze and Guattari and the affect his words about them had on each and every one ‘between us’. In doing so, we hope our collection of words stammering in the storm shows that there are creative and critical ways of becoming academic writer in collaboration, and that these, in and of themselves, may be the best hope we have of departing radically in our work to change the world
Making space as white music educators for Indigenous Australian holders of song, dance and performance knowledge: The centrality of relationship as pedagogy
No full textIn this reflective piece, the author has discarded many academic conventions to raise and implore readers to consider the question of how music educators make use of their skills, knowledge and power as white educators to open the door to Indigenous ways of doing and knowing about music which sustains such decolonising principles of teaching and learning. The author believes that one of the most powerfully transformative teaching and learning resources about Indigenous Australian performance practice rests in the multi-faceted potential of 'relationship'. Relationship is used in the sense of an 'interpersonal bond characterised by the ongoing communicative management of dialectical tensions, such as those between idealisation and realisation, affection and instrumentality, and judgement and acceptance'. Relationship, as a pedagogical method, is performed through an 'ethic of friendship', of mutual respect and empathy, and of on-going dialogue
Critical writing for embodied approaches: autoethnography, feminism and decoloniality
No full textAutoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning. At once a performative, political and poetic genre of research writing, it holds the potential to uncover the 'heart of the world', if only for a moment. The author uses theory as story and story as theory to explore her place in the world through painstaking and intimate self and social narratives to lay bare the unique challenges and rewards of autoethnography. Framed around the metaphor of 'heartlines', the author explores autoethnographic practice as critical feminist and decolonial work and the power it holds for not only imagining a wise, ethical and loving world, but for making such a kind place possible. Through a performative journey of the heart, we travel with the author as she unearths the power of words, of writing and not-writing, evoking in particular the work of Hélène Cixous and Virginia Woolf. This reflective, passionate and pioneering volume will be of interest and value to all those interested in autoethnography and the ways in which it can be applied as critical, ethical and political work in the social sciences
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