Moving beyond Orthodoxy: Reconsidering Notions of Music and Social Transformation

Autor/in	Boeskov, Kim
Titel	Moving beyond Orthodoxy: Reconsidering Notions of Music and Social Transformation
Quelle	In: Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 17 (2018) 2, S.92-117 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-4517
Schlagwörter	Music; Music Education; Social Change; Refugees; Foreign Countries; Music Activities; Partnerships in Education; Models; Music Theory; Palestine; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musik; Musikerziehung; Sozialer Wandel; Flüchtling; Ausland; Musikalische Aktion; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Analogiemodell; Musiktheorie; Palästina; Norwegen
Abstract	Critical scholars have noted a tendency in the field of music education toward idealization of the socially transformative power of music and a disregard of the counterproductive or ambiguous outcomes of social music making. In this article, I discuss some of the dominant conceptualizations addressing music as a means of social transformation, and I argue that these conceptions need to be expanded to fully account for these complex processes. By applying a theoretical model derived from critical musicology dealing with music's mediation of the social on multiple levels, I propose an analytical strategy more attentive to the antagonistic and ambiguous social effects of musicking. This strategy is exemplified through an analysis of a music program in a Palestinian refugee camp, and I show how such critical analyses of musical sociality potentially result in recognition of a complex intersection of transgressive and normative functions of musical practice (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01