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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"music-making"”.
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Structuring social relationships: Music-making and group identity
… group identity. In particular, I investigate music’s role in our social landscape. Making music together is a powerful way of establishing and structuring these relationships; I argue that it can bring people together, but can also reinforce the divisions between them. First, I present a new …
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Investigating Young Children's Music-making Behavior: A Developmental Theory
… qualitative meaning and importance of their own music-making experiences. Music created by average, not prodigious, young children is perceived by adults as “play” music rather than “real” music. But do young children take the same view as adults? When Piaget speaks of the young child’s …
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"""Donde Nace Lo Cubano"": Aesthetics, Nationalist Sentiment, and Cuban Music Making"
… and early 21st century Cuba. I demonstrate how music making has occupied a privileged role in the construction of cubanidad and the ways in which it continues to exert a powerful frame for contemporary performances of Cuban cultural identity. I assert that the focus on music making provides a …
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MakeMu: An Online, Cross-Platform, Collaborative Web Application for Music-Making
Existing technologies that support online music collaboration are either overly simple in their capabilities, or may require complex setup and installation. Truly real-time collaborative cross-platform “music systems” may only offer a few, quite simple features. Meanwhile, fully expressive …
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Music Making in Iran: Developments Between the Sixteenth and Late Nineteenth Centuries
… draws on a variety of sources including musical treatises, song-text collections, court chronicles, travel accounts, biographies, paintings, nineteenth-century albums of photographs and the early Persian 78 rpm records.</p> <p>The first chapter provides a background on the role of …
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Lives and careers in music: a social identity perspective on brass music-making
… presents a qualitative investigation of brass musicians’ identities. It explores the lives and careers of 40 elite musicians through narrative interviews, and of 572 amateurs, semi-professionals and professionals in an online survey. Combining theories from social psychology and music …
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Resonant China: Transnational Music-making and the Construction of the Public, 1934-1958
… examines the history of Sino-Western musical encounters from the second to the third quarter of the twentieth century, arguing for the construction of a music public – a tangible and transnational assemblage of individuals, audiences, institutions, and musical works that politicized …
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"Oh, When the Wiz": An Ethnography of Communal Music-Making in Kansas City Soccer Culture
… you have likely engaged in some participatory music-making through chanting, cheering, or singing, but have you ever stopped to ponder why and how that music-making works? Association football (soccer) fans around the world chant together as a means of establishing a game day atmosphere as well …
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Teaching creative music: A case-study and action research examination of practices in creative music making
Many scholars agree that creative music making can facilitate student agency development, increase a sense of belonging and foster creative expression. Creative music making allows students to bring their perspectives to the learning context through their own creations and explorations. In my own …
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The role of music-making in the identity construction of members of an adult community concert band
… this qualitative case study was to ascertain how music-making and band membership contributed to the identities of members of the New Orleans Concert Band and how their identities influenced their behaviors. The musician role identity of members of the New Orleans Concert Band, an adult community …
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MAMI tech toolkit: utilising action research to develop a technological toolkit to facilitate access to music-making.
Music is essential to most of us, it can light up all areas of the brain, help develop skills with communication, help to establish identity, and allow a unique path for expression. However, barriers to access or gaps in provision can restrict access to music-making and sound exploration for some …
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'Lines of flight': digital musical instruments, inclusive music bands, meaningful engagement in music-making and learning
… I examine the development of three inclusive music bands in Cork city. Derived from Jellison’s research on inclusive music education, inclusive music bands involve students with disabilities coming together with typically developing peers to make and learn music that is meaningful (Jellison, …
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Erard, Bochsa and their impact on harp music-making in Australia (1830-1866): an early history from documents.
… how that relationship had an impact on harp music and music-making in the period under review. The study pursues three intersecting lines of investigation. The first details Sébastien Erard’s ground-breaking development of his double action harp, and the social status it enjoyed in Europe, …
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Through the lens of Levinas: An ethnographically-informed case study of pupils’ practices of facing in music-making
… of Emmanuel Levinas might shape practice in music education. In a climate of accountability and performativity within wider educational policy-making, the drive for ever-increasing efficiency has overtaken notions of professional judgement and ethical practice. This study opens by introducing …
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Music as a birthright: Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and participatory music making in the twenty-first century
The Old Town School of Folk Music (OTSFM), founded in 1957 on Chicago’s North Side, has over the course of its history developed pedagogies and social practices to transform its urban, cosmopolitan students from music consumers to music participants. By the 2000s, it had become the largest …
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Musicking and Literacy Connections in the Third Space: Leveraging the Strengths of a Latinx Immigrant Community
<p>The music-making classroom is a space were students enact their multi-literacies. This space is especially important for Latinx bilingual students who are often labeled as struggling in school. In the music-making classroom, students reinvent their identities as integral members of a learning …
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Music, marimbas and children : exploring the meaning that children make of playing marimbas and wacky instruments with Artist-In-Residence, Jon Madin.
… Artist-In-Residence, Jon Madin. The approach to music-making of the Artist-In-Residence is one which is participatory, inclusive and accessible, and which places value on children's active engagement in music-making.
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“Leisure with Decorum”: Gentlemen Making Music in the Georgian era
<p>This project examines the musical activities of Georgian gentlemen with the goal of illustrating the ways that recreational music-making tested the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. While the English nobility could respectably engage in music-making, socialize with professional …
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"""Jazzy Belle Retell/tale"": toward a framework of sonic black girlhood"
… girl band, We Levitate. This thesis explores the making of the retell/tale of a popular song by the hip hop group, OutKast as a practice of black girlhood music making. Moreover, this thesis will investigate the use of this music making as a tool for decolonizing research on and about Black girls’ …
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Musicking in the liminal Space between Community Music and Music Education
The study explored musicking, social capital, and social justice as connection points in the liminal space between community music (CM) and music education (MusEd). Musicking encapsulates active human involvement in music-making opportunities (Odendaal, Kankkunen, Nikkanen & Vakeva, 2014:165-168). …
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