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- Ferm Almqvist, Cecilia, Professor, 1966-, et al.
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Spotify as a case of musical Bildung
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordic Research in Music Education. - Oslo : Cappelen Damm AS. - 2703-8041. ; 2:1, s. 89-113
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the meaning and function of streaming media as a potential facilitator of musical Bildung. Taking the affordances of streaming media technologies as a starting point, the article thus focuses on the formative and cultivating dimensions a music streaming service such as Spotify might offer. The specific aim of this article is to describe and analyse how musical Bildung may evolve within a Spotify context from a user perspective. To address the aim from the point of view of music education, Spotify users’ activities and experiences of streaming media interactions were accessed, inspired by internet-related ethnography. Stimulated recall interviews, focusing on the participants’ experiences as well as their actual use of Spotify’s streaming service, were conducted, recorded, and transcribed. The generated material was subjected to co-operative hermeneutic content analysis. The results illuminate how Bildung evolves in users’ encounters with the service and with art mediated via Spotify. Relevant topics occurring in the human-art-technology relationship of Bildung from a Heideggerian perspective were Being-possible, the ability-to-be, and Spotify as the Other. In sum, it can be stated that Bildung evolves when Spotify exceeds the thingness of the Other, becoming a work of art in itself, throwing the user into Being.
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- Leijonhufvud, Susanna, 1972-, et al.
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Teaching and Learning with Nimbra Technology
- 2023
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Ingår i: <em>Academic Freedom and Responsibility in Music Education and </em><em>Research</em>. - Örebro.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Teaching and Learning with Nimbra TechnologyWhat do you do when you want to play a particular instrument and no teacher of that particular instrument can teach you where you live? This is the case for several music students at Ålands Musikinstitut (ÅMI) at Mariehamn. One way to solve the problem is to employ a teacher to travel to the school of music. However, the distance is always far – as Åland is situated in the middle of the sea between Sweden and Finland so such travel is not possible on a regular weekly basis. Another solution is to use digital communication technology that can enable such a music educational meeting. In this project, we analyse the educational and didactical affordances such long-distance communication technology provides. We will present the high-fidelity fibre technology of Nimbra with an extremely low latency of five milliseconds.Given that latency, playing music together in real-time is possible. For a couple of years, a cello teacher from Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut (SMI) has been teaching students at ÅMI via this technique an arrangement that we have started to follow. In the research project, we will look at crucial issues of music didactic communication – sonic attunement; sound and frequencies, rhythm and tightness; visual contact; mutual eye contact, instrument, score; and tactile contact. By employing a multimodal social semiotic theory, we will present how we examine how multimodal semiotics translate to the digital presence. Does all the semiotics translate? If so, to what extent? Does it communicate at all “levels” of music knowledge development – from the level of beginners to advanced level? These questions lead to a recapture of frame factor theory regarding physical frames and the qualification of the student and teacher. An overarching aim of the study is therefore to map out the future need for music educational reforms with regards to the entrance of such digital equipment and the digital literacy that follows.
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- Åberg, Sven
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Circumvention : On judgement as practical action
- 2012
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Ingår i: AI & Society. - London : Springer London. - 0951-5666 .- 1435-5655.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article is based on material from a series of Dialogue Seminars conducted with teachers at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Descriptions of processes within the master/apprentice relationships serve as an empirical base for further reflections on the nature of practical knowledge and how practical and artistic judgement can be developed.Problems of performance cannot always be attacked head-on by discussing them directly, so a linguistic circumvention of the problem often takes place. The creation of a language agreement where metaphors and figures acquire a situation-bound meaning is an example of this kind of circumvention. This situational language agreement is created within a field of tension between teacher and student. The teachers’ judgmental process of how and when to use language within this tension field is seen as a general example of a practitioners internal balancing in the actual moment of performance. The article argues that personal judgement involves an ability to balance several incompatible extremes of approach. To gain an overview of the forces affecting a practitioner, it may be helpful to see the practitioner as handling an array of mutually exclusive poles. The image of ‘paradoxical fields’ is offered as an expression of the practitioner’s movement between these poles. Examples of paradoxical fields include planning/spontaneity in a musical performance, breadth/depth in a students’ development and the tension between lyrics and music of a song.
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