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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"musicking"”.
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Magical Musicking: Musical Communication in Contemporary Fantasy Literature
… literature studies. I coin the term ‘magical musicking’, extending Christopher Small’s (2012) concept of musicking, denoting music as an active human encounter that confirms and affirms the relationships of the living world, to the magic-enhanced forging of connections in fantasy literature. …
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What is Music For?: Utopian Ecomusicologies and Musicking Hornby Island
… to rehearsal, band to band, year to year, musicking binds entire communities more closely together. I locate strategies for community solidarity like turn-taking, trust-building, gift-exchange, communication, fundraising, partying, education, and conflict resolution as plentiful within …
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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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User serviceable parts: Practice, technology, sociality and method in live electronic musicking
… the interplay of social and material factors in musicking, and at interrogating the disciplinary status of our field vis-a-vis musical and technical disciplines.
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Making Music and Making Place: Mapping Musical Practice in Irish Small Towns
… theoretical framework and methodology, ‘musicking geography’. The theoretical framework introduces four strands central to emplaced musicking: gathering and weaving of places, ‘musicking fields of care’, ‘the work of musicking’, and rhythms. The methodology centres on collaborative, …
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How professional, popular musicians understand their musicking in relation to mental health: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… that is accommodated through Small’s concept of musicking (1998), including the nuanced experiences of both personal and professional music engagement in relation to mental health. The experiences of seven popular musicians were explored using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, which …
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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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Let it breathe : social media musicking practices among Black women coping with mental health struggles during transboundary crisis
… which Black women, aged 35-45, utilized online musicking practices to cope with symptoms of anxiety and depression during the transboundary crisis of 2020. The findings from this research utilizes the respondents own narratives to describe the state of their mental health prior to and during the …
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YOU'RE THERE IN THE TIME SLIP: A HERMENEUTIC EXPLORATION OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN MUSICKING THROUGH THE LENS OF MIHALYI CSIKZENTMIHALYI'S FLOW STATE THEORY
The purpose of this study is to provide a detailed description of the aesthetic experience as it is encountered in music, and, in so doing, to develop an operational definition of aesthetic experience as it is understood and experienced by practitioners in relation to the phenomenon as it is found …
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Musicians in Space
… It draws heavily on Christopher Small’s idea of musicking to contextualize the argument that in the fifty year history of FiM, improvisers have failed to fully explore possible alternatives to the formal separation and static positioning of the audience and performer. While the conventional …
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Performing Identities, Performing Possibilities: A Music-Centered and Relational Perspective on Performance in Community Music Therapy and Music Education
… fundamentally performed and relational nature of musicking and the self and explores implications for music therapy and music education. The first two articles explore the “Coffee House”, a community music therapy event at an adolescent mental health facility, through the voices of youth and staff …
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The Incorporated Hornist: Instruments, Embodiment, and the Performance of Music
… the boundaries of the body; brass instrument musicking, however, begins not where the sound emerges from the bell, but at the very least at the meeting point of the player’s breath, the surfaces of the body, and the tube of the instrument. This project of instrumental incorporation understands …
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Song hunters in Svaneti: Musical tourism and other intercultural encounters in highland Georgia
… new opportunities for Svan musicians, local musicking has shifted to accommodate and sometimes prioritize the needs of foreigners or lowland cultural administrators. By examining the relationships that develop between Svanetian musicians and people from other parts of the world, I uncover the …
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The learning and performance practices of the chalumeau: A practice-led autoethnography
… illustrate the importance of collaborative musicking for more meaningful knowledge generation, optimal learning, and improved skill acquisition in music learning and performance.
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Innovation and Empowerment: Transformational Leadership and Ubuntu in the Youth Choir
… 2006, 2013; Cook 2001, 2003, 2013) and musicking (Small 1998). The study investigated the leadership practice of Scott Leithead, one of Canada’s foremost youth choirs, and his work with Kokopelli of Edmonton, AB. Kokopelli was selected because of its excellence as evidenced by frequent …
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Through the lens of Levinas: An ethnographically-informed case study of pupils’ practices of facing in music-making
… relationship-oriented conceptualisation of ‘musicking’ (1998), and these provide the starting point for this study’s search for an ethical underpinning for music education. Levinas’ first major work (1969) provides two key strands of thought – the polarities of totality and infinity, and the …
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Musikskap : Musikstunders didaktik i förskolepraktiker
… theory (Klafki, 2005) and the theory of musicking (Small, 2008). In the music activity the music phenomenon is understood as an object (Reimer, 2003), as action (Elliott, 2005; Small, 1998), and as something that takes place between the subject and the object (Nielsen, 2006). These three …
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Protest Movements of the 1960s - 1970s in Latin America and the United States
<p>Music is an integral part of a complex transcultural and political connection that exists between Latin America and the United States. Exploring the transnational culture of music in the Americas, this project considers the historical and socio-political issues which contribute to this …
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Recent experimental electronic music practices in Iran: an ethnographic and sound-based investigation
The aim of this thesis is to identify and locate an experimental elec-tronic music ‘scene’ in Iran within a web of historical-social-political-religious-economic-technological agencies. Drawing from the growing traditions of digital ethnography and artistic research, this project doc-uments and …