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- Gullö, Jan-Olof, 1961-
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Let´s Clear the Smoke: Fifty Years of Smoke on the Water in Music Education
- 2023
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In: MEIEA Summit Proceedings - 2023. - Nashville : Belmont University & MEIEA. ; , s. 23-26
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In December 1971, the British rock band Deep Purple recorded Smoke on the Water, which became a global hit and significantly contributed to the band’s popularity. This study aims to investigate the reasons behind the song’s success, such as its inherent values, composition, lyrics, or music production design, as well as other potential explanations. We also study Smoke on the Water’s impact on music education. We interviewed music teachers, producers, students, and musicians from different countries to accomplish this. The study also relies on insights from interviews with Deep Purple members, observations made during concerts and study visits, and external sources. The study finds its theoretical basis in cultural psychology, education, economics, sociology, and musicology theories. The findings highlight the significance of understanding the fundamental elements of a song, which aspiring artists, musicians, and music producers should consider if they want to reach a broader audience.
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- Åberg, Sven
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Styles and actions : Paradoxes and agreements in the conservatory teacher's practice
- 2010
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This book is a reworked and translated version of Sven Åbergs doctoral dissertation "Spelrum" (2008). It discusses the transfer of practical knowledge as seen in the practises of conservatory teachers at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. It is based on material from three series of dialogue seminars conducted with teachers and students. The aim of the dialogue seminar is to bring a practitioner’s personal style of relating to a profession into a form which makes it possible for the practitioner and others to reflect upon. Using the participants’ texts and the seminar protocols as a starting point the dissertation develops some of the themes which emerged. It is divided into three parts:The first discusses conservatory teachers’ relationship to language. Examples include the teachers’ use of indirect ways to »work around« a problem rather than addressing it directly, the use of metaphors and figures of speech, and the fields of disagreement that surround certain central concepts. These disagreements exist within a »thought-style« shared by practitioners of a profession.The second part develops some of the paradoxes inevitably encountered in practical music making and musical education. Examples include planning-spontaniety, simplicity-complexity, reflection-action, clarity-truth, breadth-depth. It is argued that the way in which practitioners’ handle and relate to such »paradoxical fields« constitute an essential part of mature professional skills.The third part discusses the nature of practical knowledge, especially its relationship to the rules that can be established to help transmit such knowledge. The wittgensteinian image of basic rules, which are followed in a way that can not be described in rules, is contrasted by an image in which the learner gains access to patterns of action which are handled on the basis of the percieved meaning of the actions.
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