Barns musikkomponerande i tradition och förändring
2012 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)Alternative title
Children`s music composing activities in tension, between tradition and change (English)
Abstract [en]
This thesis focuses on education at Swedish community music and arts schools and at primary schools. The aim of the study is to contribute to knowledge formation within the field of music education by examining how children make music in an institutional context and how the development of new approaches in teaching and learning affect how children practise music. This is studied by observing what happens when children aged 9 to 12, compose music when they have access to digital tools in a community music and arts school and in a primary school – with specific focus on how composing tasks take shape under varying contextual and interpersonal conditions. 13 children from a community music and arts school and 21 children from a primary school participated in the study. In order to gather material for this study a survey was undertaken to examine the children’s experiences of music, instruments and digital tools. In order to observe and examine composing activities and the music the children had composed, these sessions were recorded on video. The theoretical framework for the study is based on a sociocultural perspective. The results indicate contextual-related differences between the activities in the community music and arts school and the primary school. The differences are observed in the activities and the music the children compose. By addressing interpersonal-related differences the reason why some groups of children undertake the task of composing and some groups of children do not undertake this task can be examined further.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Konstnärliga fakulteten, Göteborgs universitet , 2012. , p. 180
Series
ArtMonitor, ISSN 1653-9958 ; 34
Keywords [en]
music education, children, music composition, digital tools, learning, socio-cultural perspective
National Category
Music
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-23930Libris ID: 13512263ISBN: 978-91-979993-1-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-23930DiVA, id: diva2:662389
Public defence
2012-09-07, Lingsalen (A505), Högskolan för scen och musik, Artisten, Fågelsången 1, Göteborg, 10:00
Opponent
Supervisors
Note
This thesis also includes a CD with the music the children composed.
2013-11-132013-11-072020-05-18Bibliographically approved