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Explorativ bildning i strömmande medier : Spotify som ett case
- 2020
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Vilka bildningsprocesser kan urskiljas ur människors Spotifyanvändande? Det visar sig att ett sådant användande är tätt sammanflätat med musikalisk- såväl som digital kunskap. Med ett fokus på de bildningsprocesser som sker i samspelet mellan människa, teknik och musik utmanas förståelsen av vad en strömmande musiktjänst som Spotify kan erbjuda.”Evolving Bildung in the nexus of streaming services, art and users – Spotify as a case” är ett tvärdisciplinärt projekt som visar hur människans bildningsprocesser villkoras, utmanas och möjliggörs i och med den strömmande medieutvecklingen. Denna bok kan med fördel användas inom utbildningar i musikpedagogik, musikvetenskap, musikproduktion, ljudteknik, pedagogik, kulturstudier, sociologi, samt medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap.
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- Hentschel, Linn, 1980-, et al.
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Humor, gender and creativity in music education
- 2020
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In: The topology of music education as a field of researches, policies and practices.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this paper we will discuss humor as a gendered resource which opens up spaces for creativity in music education. We will do so by re-analysing empirical material from our two doctoral dissertations focusing on music education in secondary schools in Sweden. Humor is often presented as something positive when it comes to education. Humor has for example been pointed out as a resource to create motivation within school-subjects otherwise not regarded as interesting among students. Humor has also been proven fruitful for teachers in order to create a friendly environment and to balance teachers formal position with a more familiar position. In other words, humor seems, within education, to be constructed as a resource to accomplish different educational goals within the classroom. In this paper though, we will discuss difficulties to keep in mind when humor appears in students interactions within the music-classroom. In the following we will draw the attention to some themes we want to discuss which have become visible in our material. When it comes to gender, humor does not seem to be a neutral resource. In studies conducted within the secondary school music-education, humor seems to be more frequently used to express masculinity. Students positioned as boys are also more expected to be humoristic and make jokes than students positioned as girls. Similarly, in research regarding the humor-business, humor seems to represent a masculine domain. Even if this is a hierarchical order that seems to change, it is a discourse that is still being reproduced and thus still have a possible explanatory power. Humor as a masculine domaine is in the material also apparent as students positioned as boys expressing humor are not being questioned, which is the case among students positioned as girls. Language creates binaries. These binaries are contextual and changes over time but are however inevitably producing positions in the particular context. Humor is in our material frequently constructed as the opposite to seriousity. This does not mean that making jokes could not be “serious business”, but rather that the distance to seriousity in itself could be used in interaction to create space, which we would like to discuss in terms of creativity. Making jokes in the different music classrooms can function as resources to create distance to seriousity. In other words, making jokes makes it possible to express yourself in otherwise not socially accepted ways without being criticized. When draped in humor, expressions such as sexism, violence, racism, homofobia etcetera could be articulated and yet not followed by criticism. Even if this could be understood as a somewhat negative way of using humor, it points towards the creative potential that comes with humor in social interaction. This kind of creativity is primarily connected to the positioning work that is being done in interactions. Even creativity connected to musical expression is, following our material, facilitated by expressions of humor. Singing in different ways in order to make other people laugh is connected to breaking (and thus at the same time expressing) musical conventions in different contexts. Singing in a funny playful way can also be used as a didactic method to encourage pupils to sing, or as a positive approach during the rehearsal phases of musical processes in school. In secondary school music classrooms the demands from public policy to teach creativity in music is not seldomly done by letting students write songs. In our material we have studied an example in which the students are seriously engaged in expressing humor within their composing. We will argue that this kind of humor increases creativity. Attempting to be humoristic can in other words be very closely connected to creativity. Humor could also be understood in negative terms, not in what it produces in terms of creativity in order to make a joke, but rather in what or who is the aim of the joke. Something or someone is always pointed out in jokes. Jokes have, in other words, a normative effect. In our material making jokes could be used to legitimize pointing out someone's mistakes for example, even if teasing is not socially accepted within the classroom. Finally, these different aspects of humor combined creates different opportunities for musical creativity within music education. These differences are, we argue, important to consider when using humor as a didactic resource.
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- Backman Bister, Anna, 1976-, et al.
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Uppfattningar om musikundervisningen i grundsärskolan.
- 2022
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In: Lärarnas forskningskonferens 2022. ; , s. 41-42
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Uppfattningar om musikundervisningen i grundsärskolanAnna Backman Bister, Kungliga musikhögskolan, Diana Berthén, Stockholms universitet och Viveca Lindberg, Stockholms universitetBakgrund, syfte och frågeställningar: I vårt bidrag presenterar vi en intervjustudie med sex musiklärare i grundsärskolan. Syftet är att undersöka hur lärarna beskriver sin undervisning för denna elevgrupp.Vikten av undervisning där elever med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning (IF) får möta estetiska uttrycksmedel och ges möjlighet att erövra ett kulturellt medborgarskap betonas av flera forskare (jfr Ferm Almqvist, 2016; Sæther, 2008). FN:s barnkonvention om barnets rättigheter, samt FN:s konvention om rättigheter för personer med funktionsnedsättning, betonar att personer med IF har rätt att ta plats som fullvärdiga medlemmar av samhället, inte bara för sin egen skull utan också för att berika samhället. Denna rättighet speglas också i skollagen.Det finns ett fåtal internationella studier med fokus på musikundervisning för elever med intellektuella funktionsnedsättningar (IF). Dessa har antingen undersökt undervisning i integrerade klasser, där elever med IF undervisas tillsammans med elever utan IF, eller så är studierna gjorda i relation till musikterapi. Flera av dem är fallstudier baserade på enskilda barn eller ungdomar. Nationellt saknas såväl studier som utvärderingar av musikundervisning i grundsärskolan (Berthén, Backman Bister, Lindberg, accepterad för publikation). Resultatet av vår forskningsöversikt av musikundervisning i grundsärskolan (Berthén, Backman Bister, Lindberg, accepterad för publikation) visar närmast att musiklärarna försöker hantera en situation de oftast saknar kunskaper om och erfarenheter av (Berthén, Backman Bister, Lindberg, accepterad för publikation).Forskningsfrågan för vårt bidrag är vilka uppfattningar musiklärare i Sverige har av musikundervisningen för elever med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning och förutsättningarna för denna undervisning i grundsärskolan? Vi har inspirerats av Carlson (2013), som använder uttrycket musical becoming för att betona möjligheten att få uttrycka sig musikaliskt, särskilt för personer med komplicerad språklig kommunikation, och för att påvisa att det kan ta form på olika sätt – som musikkonsument, eller som (med)skapare av musik.Urval och metod: En inbjudan till ett flertal musiklärare skickades ut via den ena forskarens nätverk. Urvalskriterierna var att lärarna skulle ha lärarbehörighet och att de skulle vara aktivt verksamma som musiklärare i grundsärskolan. När det gäller lärarsituationen i grundsärskolan saknas ofta den dubbla kompetens som krävs, dvs musiklärarutbildning och speciallärarutbildning för elever med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning (IF). Under läsåret 2020/21 uppgick andelen musiklärare med lärarlegitimation och behörighet i musik i grundsärskolan till 6,3 % (https://siris.skolverket.se).Semistrukturerade tematiska intervjuer genomfördes utifrån tre teman. Varje intervju inleddes med frågor som riktades mot lärarens upplevda didaktiska utveckling och faktorer som påverkat denna (jfr life-storytraditionen, Dunpath & Samuel 2009), därefter följde frågor41gällande de förutsättningar respektive skola erbjöd för musikundervisning i grundsärskola. Avslutningsvis ställde vi frågor om lärarnas musikundervisning baserat på kursplanen i musik för grundsärskolan. Medan den första intervjun genomfördes på en av de deltagande lärarnas skola, kom övriga intervjuer att genomföras på Zoom på grund av pandemin. Samtliga lärare informerades om syftet med studien och gav sitt medgivande till att intervjuerna spelades in. Ljudinspelningarna transkriberades och utgör vårt datamaterial. Intervjuerna analyseras fenomenografiskt (se Marton, 1994) för att urskilja återkommande skillnader i mönster av uppfattningar i intervjuerna.Resultatet förväntas bidra med utgångspunkter för en kommande interventionsstudie i grundsärskolans musikundervisning.ReferenserDunpath, R. & Samuel, M. (2009). Life History Research. Epistemology, Methodology and Representation. Sense Publishers.Carlson, L. (2013). Musical becoming: Intellectual disability and the transformative power of music. I: M. Wappett & K. Arndt (eds.) Foundations of Disability Studies (83-103). Palgrave Macmillan.Ferm Almqvist, C. (2016). Cultural Citizenship through aesthetic communication in Swedish schools. European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education, 1(1), 68-95.Marton, F. (1994). Phenomenography. I T. Husén & T. N. Postlethwaite (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Education. 2. ed, Vol 8, 4424–4429. Pergamon.Saether, E. (2008). When minorities are the majority: voices from a teacher/researcher project in a multicultural school in Sweden. Research Studies in Music Education, 30(1), 25–42.
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- Bojner Horwitz, Eva, et al.
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Can Dance and Music Make the Transition to a Sustainable Society More Feasible?
- 2022
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In: Behavioral Sciences. - : MDPI AG. - 2076-328X. ; 12:1, s. 11-11
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- AbstractTransition to sustainability is a process that requires change on all levels of society from the physical to the psychological. This review takes an interdisciplinary view of the landscapes of research that contribute to the development of pro-social behaviors that align with sustainability goals, or what we call ‘inner sustainability’. Engaging in musical and dance activities can make people feel trust and connectedness, promote prosocial behavior within a group, and also reduce prejudices between groups. Sustained engagement in these art forms brings change in a matter of seconds (such as hormonal changes and associated stress relief), months (such as improved emotional wellbeing and learning outcomes), and decades (such as structural changes to the brains of musicians and dancers and superior skills in expressing and understanding emotion). In this review, we bridge the often-separate domains of the arts and sciences by presenting evidence that suggests music and dance promote self-awareness, learning, care for others and wellbeing at individual and group levels. In doing so, we argue that artistic practices have a key role to play in leading the transformations necessary for a sustainable society. We require a movement of action that provides dance and music within a constructive framework for stimulating social sustainability.
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- Gullö, Jan-Olof, 1961-, et al.
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Innovative communication by the music producers behind the hits?
- 2023
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In: Innovation In Music Conference 2023 Abstracts book. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh Napier University & Innovation In Music.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Swedish pop and rock music producers have contributed to major international successes in recent decades. Despite this, only a few researchers have studied the professional knowledge of these producers and what they do in their work. What producers do and their knowledge is something of a black box. Understanding producers' professional knowledge is essential for future producers, decision-makers and educators to create the conditions for tomorrow's success. However, what are the core competencies and skills apart from technical expertise? What is in the black box? This study mainly focuses on how producers communicate with musicians, artists, and other producer colleagues. These are the research questions: What characterizes explicit communication verbally or in other ways? Is there implicit communication, and how does it differ from explicit communication? Which communication is necessary and which is superfluous? Is there communication that can hinder a fruitful process during a music production session? Are there innovative multimodal communication methods that are particularly useful in music production? How do different producers use different communication strategies? Theoretically, this research rests on several legs. First, Kurt Blaukopf's music sociology is an interdisciplinary approach rather than a discipline (Blaukopf, 2003; Blaukopf & Zembylas, 2012; Smudits, 2019). Blaukopf devoted most of his professional life to formulating and practising in various fields, focusing on music as music activity, the desire for music and musical autonomy in shaping and changing complex conditions of existence. This sociology of music is complemented by other theories and theorizations, such as Howard Becker's contributions to the understanding of art worlds (Becker, 2008), Robert K. Merton's theoretical theme on opportunity structures (Merton, 1996), Jennifer Lena's and Rickard Peterson's models on how music cultures and genres evolve (Lena & Peterson, 2008), Ronald F. Inglehart's work on people's values and behaviours (Inglehart, 2018). Since creativity is a concept often referred to as a quality marker or authenticity indicator in music production, Harrison C. White's work with careers and creativity in music and music creation and artistry (White, 2008, 2020) and theories of creativity in music production is developed by Paul Thompson (2016, 2019) and Phillip McIntyre (2011, 2012, 2018) as well as various theories of authenticity further essential starting points. This paper aims to report results from observational studies and interviews with active music producers included in the project. One observation from the data we collected is that there are apparent similarities between how producers give instructions and guidance to how teachers work in music education and the supervision of students in higher education. However, the knowledge music producers use in their daily practice regarding communication with others tends to be based on personal experience after trial and error or on imitating how important predecessors and leaders in music production have acted. As a result, there are considerable variations in how different producers react. However, the common thing is that few bases their work on previous research on feedback and supervision, but they may have a lot to gain by trying it.
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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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- West, Tore, 1960-, et al.
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Interaktion och kunskapsutveckling : en studie av frivillig musikundervisning
- 2001
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In a joint dissertation project, 11 brass instrument and guitar lessons, with 4 teachers and 21 students aged 9-35 years, were videotaped, transcribed and analyzed. Two were group lessons and 9 were private lessons. The object of the project was to study how music teaching and learning can be understood from an institutional perspective by describing, analyzing and interpreting musical instrument lessons. The lessons were viewed as social encounters in which the action of participants creates and re-creates social orders at different institutional levels, by means of communication routines using speech, music and gesture. Data were derived from micro-ethnographic transcriptions of speech, gesture and music of a total of five hours of videotape, supplemented by text analyses of 14 method-books. The transcripts were analyzed as text from the perspective of critical discourse analysis. At the analytical level the study applied the cognitive concepts of experiencing and learning music, as well as those of educational genres of speech and music use. The analyzed data were interpreted and discussed from the perspectives of interaction-theory and institution-theory. The results show how the music during the lessons was broken down into separate notes, as read from the score. Music was not addressed as phrases, rhythms, or melodies. Expressive qualities of music performance were not addressed. The characteristics of the interaction were found to be asymmetric, with the teacher being the one controlling the definition of the situation. Student attempts to take initiative were ignored by teachers. This asymmetric pattern of interaction had negative consequences for students’ as well as teachers’ opportunities to learn. The organization of the teaching situation as well as teaching methods is discussed from the perspective of institution-theory. A major conclusion is that the way instrument teaching is organized leaves little room for students and teachers to discuss and reflect on the teaching process.
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- Appelgren, Alva, et al.
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Tuning in on motivation : Differences between non-musicians, amateurs, and professional musicians
- 2019
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In: Psychology of Music. - : SAGE Publications. - 0305-7356 .- 1741-3087. ; 47:6, s. 864-873
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The drive to learn and engage in music varies among individuals. Global motivation to do something can be intrinsic, for example, the joy and satisfaction in an activity. But motivation behind our action can also be extrinsic, such as the desire for fame, status or increased financial resources. The type of motivation probably influences to what degree individuals engage in musical activities. In this study, we examined the associations between the level of musical engagement and self-rated global motivation, factoring in age and sex, in a sample of 5,435 individuals. Musical engagement ranged from no music activity to amateurs and professional musicians. We found that intrinsic motivation increases with level of music activity and that motivation differs depending on sex, with females scoring higher on intrinsic motivation than males. Such differences may be considered in adjusting the forms of support offered to young musicians in music education. The phenomenon of motivation is complex, and we have highlighted areas that require further investigation, but this study has elucidated some differences in motivation types found in men and women, and between non-musicians, amateurs and professional musicians.
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- Backman Bister, Anna, 1976-, et al.
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A Prima Vista : Möjligheter och utmaningar med praktiknära forskningsprojekt i musikpedagogik
- 2021. - 1
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Book (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Antologin A prima vista är ett resultat av ett samarbetsprojekt mellan Eskilstuna kommun och Kungl. Musikhögskolan för att bedriva praktiknära forskning i musikundervisning. Projektet är utöver resurser från de båda parterna, delfinansierat av den nationella satsningen på praktiknära forskning, ULF-avtal, via Uppsala universitet.Texterna i antologin behandlar praktiknära forskning på två olika nivåer. För det första presenteras de fyra olika delprojekt som genomförts som mindre forskningsprojekt där en lärare från Eskilstuna kommun genomfört ett praktiknära forskningsprojekt tillsammans med en forskare från Kungl. Musikhögskolan. Dessa projekt handlar om teman som bland annat berör ledarskap, musikdidaktik, digitalisering och normkritik. På en övergripande nivå analyseras och diskuteras samarbetsprojektet från olika infallsvinklar. Bland annat dis- kuteras praktiknära forskningsprojekt i relation till definitioner och terminologi, syfte och funktion, etiska aspekter, att organisera för praktiknära forskning samt praktiska utmaningar och vinster med deltagande i praktiknära forskningsprojekt. I anslutning till denna övergripande nivå har lärarna själva skrivit ett kapitel i boken utifrån sina perspektiv. Vidare har rektorer, administrativ personal och ansvariga chefer fått komma till tals för att redogöra för sina perspektiv.Sammanfattningsvis spänner denna antologi över ett stort antal olika aspekter av praktiknära forskning som vi hoppas kan bidra till att inspirera till att initiera och utveckla liknande praktiknära forskningsprojekt.
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