Music Autoethnographies: Making Autoethnography Sing / Making Music Personal - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1921513403 ISBN 13: 9781921513404

Publisher: Australian Academic Press, 2009

Synopsis

Autoethnography is an autobiographical genre that connects the personal to the cultural, social, and political. 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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Australian Academic Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1921513403
• ISBN 13: 9781921513404
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Bartlett Brydie-Leigh, Ellis Carolyn