Improvisation and Social Inclusion (special issue for Taylor&Francis). Vol. 38, No. 5. : https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcmr20/38/5
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 231919123
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- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1080/07494467.2019.1684057
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- Routledge
- ISBN
- 0000000000
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Additional information
- Schroeder co-edited the full special issue ‘Improvisation and Social Inclusion’ (Contemporary Music Review (38(5): 2019)), co-authored the introduction as main editor, and co-authored the article, ‘Performance without Barriers: Improvising with Inclusive, Accessible Digital Musical Instruments'.
This special issue builds on her previous edited collection Soundweaving (2014), and extends the discussion on music improvisation to address issues of ‘inclusion’ and ‘accessibility’. These topics are at the heart of the ‘Performance without Barriers’ research group (PwB), based at SARC and founded by Schroeder in 2016. PwB has been exploring the potential of music improvisation for enhancing social inclusion. PwB has focussed on research activities related to the inclusive potential of providing access to music improvisation for people with physical disabilities via the use of digital technologies. In the research article, the authors discuss the critical thinking behind the work, which draws together the social and connective functions of music making, the open and relational practice of music improvisation and technological solutions utilising open, adaptable and accessible digital technologies. Three case studies of the work are discussed and the voices and experiences of participants in these projects are introduced.
The authors argue that activities in music improvisation have inclusive potential for opening constructive dialogues between performers, their instruments and people of different backgrounds and abilities. Furthermore, the authors reflect on the contradictions, dilemmas and points of learning, which the team has discovered when engaging in collaborative and public engagement work between researchers working in a university context and the wider society. The other nine journal contributions address music improvisation in different contexts including in working with asylum seekers and refugees; they explore the use of improvisation as a way to recovery and well-being, or how notions of inclusion and exclusion might be explored in the classroom through teaching improvisation.
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