This chapter examines the process of researching how to transmit musical heritage through the pro... more This chapter examines the process of researching how to transmit musical heritage through the process of co-writing. The Transmitting Musical Heritage project team involved a number of different partners, all with particularly complex sets of skills. These interrelationships embedded between the academic institution and community partners had a strong impact on the project, its processes and its destinations. It involved varied approaches to practice and research, with the team and the co-producers, at times, occupying an amorphous zone where academics were academics, academics became musicians, musicians became academics, and musicians were also musicians. This community of practice was able to uncover tacit knowledge about playing and the process of making music together, as well as to unfold narratives about which heritage was valuable and why. This enabled a shared vocabulary of practice.
Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Cla... more Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2014. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 182 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03851-8 (hbk) 978-0-252-08012-8 (pbk). US$85.00 (hbk) US$25.00 (pbk). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While there are several excellent accounts of folk music revivals, Cohen and Donaldson spotted a gap in coverage of the 1950s --a period they claim as 'wrongly characterized as "the bland leading the bland'" (p. 1). Taking the opportunity to document this period, they present an account of key players such as Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Woody Guthrie, A. L. Lloyd, the Kingston Trio, the New Lost City Ramblers, and a multitude of others, drawing information from record catalogues, magazine articles, correspondence, and published memoirs. They break new ground in their attempt to highlight the associations between the distinct bu...
In many settings, folk music continues to be a vibrant resource for contemporary audiences. Exist... more In many settings, folk music continues to be a vibrant resource for contemporary audiences. Existing research in the folk music scene has largely been centred on participation, reflecting historical tensions surrounding the professionalisation of the genre. However, in this paper, we challenge the binary between participatory and presentational forms of music (Turino, 2008), positioning listening as a form of participation and highlighting the work done by audiences for presentational folk music. This paper presents the findings of a longitudinal, qualitative study of listening experience around the release of a new folk album by the first author: Fay Hield’s Old Adam (2016). Through a series of focus groups, eight participants gave increasingly personalised accounts of their relationship with the music, from first reactions to finding deep meaning in the songs. We draw on disparate strands of research including developments in music psychology and audience research, as well as theo...
... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challe... more ... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challenged in other circles. These are demonstrated through William Corlett‟s (1995) use of communis, as in with oneness or unity‟, and communus, emphasising the doing of ...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been awash with buzzwords in the last decade or so, as ... more Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been awash with buzzwords in the last decade or so, as teaching has become 'entrepreneurial', 'enquiry-based', 'reflective', 'collaborative' and 'creative' (e.g. Gaunt and Westerlund, 2013; Burnard and Haddon, 2015). While the words may change with sometimes alarming rapidity, these approaches share an underlying encouragement to academics to think creatively about educational practice, and to consider the impact of students' learning experiences on their broader development and future destinations. The Music in the Community module that forms a case study for this chapter came about through one such University of Sheffield initiative around 'enterprise' education – a term used (often interchangeably with 'entrepreneurial' education) to capture the interplay of thinking and doing through cycles of reflexive and experiential learning. First popularised in school curricula with an inc...
... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challe... more ... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challenged in other circles. These are demonstrated through William Corlett‟s (1995) use of communis, as in with oneness or unity‟, and communus, emphasising the doing of ...
... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challe... more ... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challenged in other circles. These are demonstrated through William Corlett‟s (1995) use of communis, as in with oneness or unity‟, and communus, emphasising the doing of ...
This chapter examines the process of researching how to transmit musical heritage through the pro... more This chapter examines the process of researching how to transmit musical heritage through the process of co-writing. The Transmitting Musical Heritage project team involved a number of different partners, all with particularly complex sets of skills. These interrelationships embedded between the academic institution and community partners had a strong impact on the project, its processes and its destinations. It involved varied approaches to practice and research, with the team and the co-producers, at times, occupying an amorphous zone where academics were academics, academics became musicians, musicians became academics, and musicians were also musicians. This community of practice was able to uncover tacit knowledge about playing and the process of making music together, as well as to unfold narratives about which heritage was valuable and why. This enabled a shared vocabulary of practice.
Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Cla... more Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2014. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 182 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03851-8 (hbk) 978-0-252-08012-8 (pbk). US$85.00 (hbk) US$25.00 (pbk). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While there are several excellent accounts of folk music revivals, Cohen and Donaldson spotted a gap in coverage of the 1950s --a period they claim as 'wrongly characterized as "the bland leading the bland'" (p. 1). Taking the opportunity to document this period, they present an account of key players such as Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Woody Guthrie, A. L. Lloyd, the Kingston Trio, the New Lost City Ramblers, and a multitude of others, drawing information from record catalogues, magazine articles, correspondence, and published memoirs. They break new ground in their attempt to highlight the associations between the distinct bu...
In many settings, folk music continues to be a vibrant resource for contemporary audiences. Exist... more In many settings, folk music continues to be a vibrant resource for contemporary audiences. Existing research in the folk music scene has largely been centred on participation, reflecting historical tensions surrounding the professionalisation of the genre. However, in this paper, we challenge the binary between participatory and presentational forms of music (Turino, 2008), positioning listening as a form of participation and highlighting the work done by audiences for presentational folk music. This paper presents the findings of a longitudinal, qualitative study of listening experience around the release of a new folk album by the first author: Fay Hield’s Old Adam (2016). Through a series of focus groups, eight participants gave increasingly personalised accounts of their relationship with the music, from first reactions to finding deep meaning in the songs. We draw on disparate strands of research including developments in music psychology and audience research, as well as theo...
... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challe... more ... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challenged in other circles. These are demonstrated through William Corlett‟s (1995) use of communis, as in with oneness or unity‟, and communus, emphasising the doing of ...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been awash with buzzwords in the last decade or so, as ... more Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been awash with buzzwords in the last decade or so, as teaching has become 'entrepreneurial', 'enquiry-based', 'reflective', 'collaborative' and 'creative' (e.g. Gaunt and Westerlund, 2013; Burnard and Haddon, 2015). While the words may change with sometimes alarming rapidity, these approaches share an underlying encouragement to academics to think creatively about educational practice, and to consider the impact of students' learning experiences on their broader development and future destinations. The Music in the Community module that forms a case study for this chapter came about through one such University of Sheffield initiative around 'enterprise' education – a term used (often interchangeably with 'entrepreneurial' education) to capture the interplay of thinking and doing through cycles of reflexive and experiential learning. First popularised in school curricula with an inc...
... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challe... more ... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challenged in other circles. These are demonstrated through William Corlett‟s (1995) use of communis, as in with oneness or unity‟, and communus, emphasising the doing of ...
... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challe... more ... schools of thought, community is moral and deep. This depth of connection, however, is challenged in other circles. These are demonstrated through William Corlett‟s (1995) use of communis, as in with oneness or unity‟, and communus, emphasising the doing of ...
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