We Are Also Music Lovers: Testing Vocal Tastes in Higher Musical Theater Education

Autor/in	von Germeten, Guro
Titel	We Are Also Music Lovers: Testing Vocal Tastes in Higher Musical Theater Education
Quelle	In: Research Studies in Music Education, 44 (2022) 3, S.554-569 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (von Germeten, Guro)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1321-103X
DOI	10.1177/1321103X221081787
Schlagwörter	Theater Arts; Music; Singing; Music Teachers; College Students; College Faculty; Foreign Countries; Musicians; Aesthetics; Preferences; Cultural Influences; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Theaterwissenschaft; Musik; Gesang; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Ausland; Musiker; Ästhetik; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Norwegen
Abstract	This article explores taste processes within a group of musical theater students and their voice teacher, the latter also acting as researcher, while working with an aesthetically broad repertoire in a higher education setting in Norway. The study is designed using an action research approach, and the collected data--students' reflection notes, the researcher's field notes, and workshop recordings--are analyzed through Antoine Hennion's theoretical framework of taste as a performance that acts, engages, transforms, and is felt, and which involves skills and sensitizing. In the social sciences, taste is commonly regarded as a matter of cultural consumption. This article argues that tastes are also part of cultural production: musicians, here musical theater performers, are to be seen as music lovers, performing tastes that stabilize or challenge established taste patterns in the form of styles, genres, or traditions. Accounting for situations where tastes are performed, tested, and negotiated, this article argues that tastes have a history but are brought into a negotiating presence, producing implications for the future; in this case, tastes form vocal behaviors and vocal behaviors form tastes. Hence, in musical theater education, taste, taste-making, and taste-testing are part of systematic and formal pedagogics and students' ongoing vocal training. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01