Music
Autoethnographies:
Making Autoethnography Sing
/ Making Music Personal
Edited
by
Brydie-Leigh
Bartlett Carolyn
Ellis
"Blending rigorous scholarship
with richly layered exquisite accounts of music making, this book will
be an invaluable reference for students and researchers journeying into
the field of music research."
Dr Pamela Burnard, , Senior Lecturer
in Music Education, University of Cambridge and
Co-editor of Reflective
Practices in Arts Education and the British Journal of Music Education
Autoethnography is an autobiographical
genre that connects the personal to the cultural, social, and political.
Usually written in the first-person voice, autoethnographic work appears
in a variety of creative formats; for example, short stories, music compositions,
poetry, photographic essays, and reflective journals. Music Autoethnographies
explores an intersection of autoethnographic approaches with studies
of music. Written through the eyes, ears, emotions, experiences and stories
of music and autoethnography practitioners, this edited collection showcases
how autoethnography can expand musicians’ awareness of their practices,
and how musicians can expand the creative and artistic possibilities
of autoethnography. The chapters in this ground-breaking volume stand
independently as “musical lines” within themselves, and represent
a diverse range of creative, performative, pedagogical and research contexts.
When read together, they form a “harmonious counterpoint,” with
common themes and contours, as well as contrasting rhythms and textures.
Together these chapters produce a compelling story that shows how music
can inspire autoethnography to sing, and how autoethnography can inspire
musicians to reflect on the personal aspects of music creation and production.
"A new and valuable contribution to what
it means to acquire the knowledge, the skills, and to fashion the
always complex and often conflicted identity of a musician. "
Professor
H. L. Goodall, Jr. Professor of Communication, Arizona State University
and Author of Living in the Rock n Roll Mystery: Reading
Context, Self, and Others as Clues
About
the Editors
Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, PhD, is a Lecturer
in Research and Music Literature at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith
University. For the past two years, she has worked on the Queensland Conservatorium
Research Centre ARC funded project, Sound Links: Community Music in Australia.
She has also worked as a sessional Lecturer at the University of Queensland,
and as a freelance conductor has worked with ensembles from Australia,
Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan. She has published widely on issues relating
to community music, women conductors, peer-learning in conducting and feminist
pedagogy, and is currently co-editing two music-related books - Musical
Islands: Exploring Connections Between Music, Place and Research; and Navigating
Sound and Music Education. She is also on the editorial board for the International
Journal of Community Music.
Carolyn Ellis is Professor of Communication and Sociology
at the University of South Florida. She has published four books — Fisher
Folk: Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay; Final
Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness; The
Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography, and Revision:
Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work — four edited collections,
and numerous articles and stories. With Arthur Bochner, she co-edits the
book series, Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives. Her work is situated
in interpretive and artistic representations of qualitative research and
focuses on autoethnographic stories as a means to understand and interpret
culture and live a meaningful life. She enjoys dancing, hiking, gardening,
and listening to music; her actual musical talents are minimal.
Table
of Contents
About the Authors
Introduction
Making Autoethnography Sing / Making Music Personal
Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Carolyn Ellis
Section One — Composing and Improvising
Chapter 1
Songwriting and the Creation of Knowledge
David Carless and Kitrina Douglas
Chapter 2
Beautiful Here: Celebrating Life, Alternative Music,
Adolescence and Autoethnography
Karen M. Scott-Hoy
Chapter 3
Musical Artefacts of My Father's Death:
Autoethnography, Music, and Aesthetic Representation
Chris J. Patti
Chapter 4
Creativity and Improvisation: A Journey into Music
Peter Knight
Section Two — Interpreting and Performing
Chapter 5
Bye Bye Love
Stacy Holman Jones
Chapter 6
Evoking Spring inWinter: Some Personal Reflections on Returning to Schubert's
Cycle
Stephen Emmerson
Chapter 7
Letting it Go: An Autoethnographic Account of a Musician's Loss
Catherine Grant
Chapter 8
Becoming a Bass Player: Embodiment in Music Performance
Chris McRae
Section Three — Learning and Teaching
Chapter 9
Studying Music, Studying the Self: Reflections on Learning Music in Bali
Peter Dunbar-Hall
Chapter 10
The Road to Becoming a Musician: An Individual Chinese Story
Wang Yuyan
Chapter 11
“Where Was I When I Needed Me?” The Role of Storytelling in Vocal
Pedagogy Margaret Schindler
Section Four — Researching Identity and Cross-Cultural
Contexts
Chapter 12
From Ca Tru to the World: Understanding and Facilitating Musical Sustainability
Huib Schippers
Chapter 13
Looking into the Trochus Shell: Autoethnographic Reflections on a Cross-Cultural
Collaborative Music Research Project
Katelyn Barney and Lexine Solomon
Chapter 14
In Memory of Music Research: An Autoethnographic, Ethnomusicological and
Emotional Response to Grief,
Death and Loss in the Aboriginal Community at Borroloola, Northern Territory
Text and images by Elizabeth Mackinlay
Chapter 15
A Way of Loving, A Way of Knowing: Music, Sexuality and the Becoming of
a Queer Musicologist
Jodie Taylor
Chapter 16
In Music and in Life: Confronting the Self Through Autoethnography
Colin Webber
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ISBN: 9781921513404
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First
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