scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue: The International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education, and the MayDay Group Action Ideals

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Gareth Dylan Smith ◽  
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Clare Hall ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
International Symposium ◽  
Group Action ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sociology Of Music

Leisure-Time Music Activities from the Perspective of Musical Agency

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidsel Karlsen
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Learning Trajectories ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Sociology Of Music ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Music Consumption ◽  
Musical Taste ◽  
Specific Concept ◽  
Music Activities

This chapter aims to understand the phenomenon of leisure-time music activities from the perspective of musical agency. It explores how individuals’ and groups’ recreational practices involving music can be seen as a means for expanding their capacities for acting in the lived-in world. The exploration proceeds through theoretical and experiential accounts. It first draws on literature from general sociology, music sociology, and the sociology of music education in order to elaborate on the broader notion of agency, as well as the more field-specific concept of musical agency. It then explores various music-related agency modes through narrating the author’s own experiences of participating in, leading, and observing leisure-time music activities. The chapter aims to dissolve the binary opposition between recreational music production and music consumption. It argues that the two poles instead can be understood as inseparably intertwined venues for the constitution of agency, musical taste and music-related learning trajectories.

Reports From the Field: Confessions of a Facebook Punk, or How Not to Do Social Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-244
Author(s):  
Gareth Dylan Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Purpose In Life ◽  
Sociology Of Music ◽  
Working Through ◽  
The World

The author is rarely certain of his purpose in life—a condition that is heightened by a busy yet reluctant level of engagement with social media. The author utilizes Facebook and Twitter to promote activity around popular music education and sociology of music education. There is considerable overlap in the author’s life between professional and personal domains, which seems amplified by social media. Facebook and Twitter provide less formal, more direct means to engage with the world than traditional modes of peer-reviewed communication among academic colleagues. Social media provide a platform for working through ideas and for addressing problems with urgency and immediacy. As such, and despite some messiness and increased levels of vulnerability and risk, the author encourages peers to engage with social media’s immediate and powerful, punk pedagogical potential.

scholarly journals Correction to: Preface of the Special Issue: International Symposium “Worlds of Entanglement” - Second Part

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Author(s):  
Diederik Aerts ◽  
Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi ◽  
Sandro Sozzo ◽  
Tomas Veloz
Keyword(s):  
International Symposium ◽  
Special Issue
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