Music Autoethnographies Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal [Paperback]

Autoethnography is an autobiographical genre that connects the personal to the cultural, social, and political. Usually written in the first-person voice, autoethnographic work appears in a variety of creative formats; for example, short stories, music compositions, poetry, photographic essays, and reflective journals.  Music Autoethnographies explores an intersection of autoethnographic approaches with studies of music. Written through the eyes, ears, emotions, experiences and stories of music and autoethnography practitioners, this edited collection showcases how autoethnography can expand musicians' awareness of their practices, and how musicians can expand the creative and artistic possibilities of autoethnography. The chapters in this ground-breaking volume stand independently as “musical lines” within themselves, and represent a diverse range of creative, performative, pedagogical and research contexts. When read together, they form a “harmonious counterpoint,” with common themes and contours, as well as contrasting rhythms and textures. Together these chapters produce a compelling story that shows how music can inspire autoethnography to sing, and how autoethnography can inspire musicians to reflect on the personal aspects of music creation and production. A new and valuable contribution to what it means to acquire the knowledge, the skills, and to fashion the always complex and often conflicted identity of a musician.  Professor H. L. Goodall, Jr., Arizona State University and Author of Living in the Rock n Roll Mystery: Reading Context, Self, and Others as CluesBlending rigorous scholarship with richly layered exquisite accounts of music making, this book will be an invaluable reference for students and researchers journeying into the field of music research.  Dr Pamela Burnard, Senior Lecturer in Music Education, University of Cambridge and Co-editor of Reflective Practices in Arts Education and the British JlC!