TY - JOUR
T1 - Hybrid spaces and hyphenated musicians
T2 - Secondary students' musical engagement in a songwriting and technology course
AU - Tobias, Evan
PY - 2012/9/1
Y1 - 2012/9/1
N2 - This case study investigates how secondary students (three individuals and three groups) engaged with music and acted as musicians in a Songwriting and Technology Class (STC), a course involving the creation, performance, recording and production of original music with instruments and music technology. The following research question guided the study: In what ways are students engaging with music in the STC? Findings suggest that students engaged as hyphenated musician[s] by thinking and acting as songwriters, performers, sound engineers, recordists, mix engineers and producers in ways that were recursive and often overlapping. Students' engagement in these roles was particular to their individual and group contexts. Music education might broaden curricular offerings and reconceptualise classrooms as hybrid spaces to address the shared and idiosyncratic ways of knowing and doing music that students encountered through each role and holistically as hyphenated musicians.
AB - This case study investigates how secondary students (three individuals and three groups) engaged with music and acted as musicians in a Songwriting and Technology Class (STC), a course involving the creation, performance, recording and production of original music with instruments and music technology. The following research question guided the study: In what ways are students engaging with music in the STC? Findings suggest that students engaged as hyphenated musician[s] by thinking and acting as songwriters, performers, sound engineers, recordists, mix engineers and producers in ways that were recursive and often overlapping. Students' engagement in these roles was particular to their individual and group contexts. Music education might broaden curricular offerings and reconceptualise classrooms as hybrid spaces to address the shared and idiosyncratic ways of knowing and doing music that students encountered through each role and holistically as hyphenated musicians.
KW - curriculum
KW - music education
KW - popular music
KW - secondary
KW - technology
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U2 - 10.1080/14613808.2012.685459
DO - 10.1080/14613808.2012.685459
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84866105759
SN - 1461-3808
VL - 14
SP - 329
EP - 346
JO - Music Education Research
JF - Music Education Research
IS - 3
ER -