Behind Closed Doors: A Study of Solitary Music Making. Bennett, R. 2015. ISBN: 9781321770025 Place: Ann Arbor Publication Title: Behind Closed Doors: A Study of Solitary Music Making
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Automusication, the act of performing music by and for oneself, is an extraordinarily widespread musical phenomenon, yet it has never been given rigorous scholarly attention. The weight given to performance within the ethnomusicological community has created a bias toward the social and communal aspects of music at the expense of private or personal musical behaviors. Studies in every day musical experiences have begun to broach hitherto under-researched musical activities, but rarely has solitary music making been addressed in a scholarly forum. The primary intent of my research is to begin to construct an ethnography of solitary musical practitioners, specifically focusing on those I have classified as "automusicants." This research is situated alongside studies of listening habits and practicing as well as interdisciplinary literature pertaining to music cognition, perception, trance, solitude, and play. Three primary phases underpin this study: 1. A macroscopic view of automusication as a widespread practice, constructed through the assembly of large-scale data by way of web-based surveys. 2. A mid-level view of the role of automusication in the lives of numerous self-identified solitary music-makers. 3. A microscopic view analyzing the automusication of several informants through close dialectic feedback interviews and recording analysis.
@misc{bennett_behind_2015,
	title = {Behind {Closed} {Doors}: {A} {Study} of {Solitary} {Music} {Making}},
	abstract = {Automusication, the act of performing music by and for oneself, is an extraordinarily widespread musical phenomenon, yet it has never been given rigorous scholarly attention. The weight given to performance within the ethnomusicological community has created a bias toward the social and communal aspects of music at the expense of private or personal musical behaviors. Studies in every day musical experiences have begun to broach hitherto under-researched musical activities, but rarely has solitary music making been addressed in a scholarly forum. The primary intent of my research is to begin to construct an ethnography of solitary musical practitioners, specifically focusing on those I have classified as "automusicants." This research is situated alongside studies of listening habits and practicing as well as interdisciplinary literature pertaining to music cognition, perception, trance, solitude, and play. Three primary phases underpin this study: 1. A macroscopic view of automusication as a widespread practice, constructed through the assembly of large-scale data by way of web-based surveys. 2. A mid-level view of the role of automusication in the lives of numerous self-identified solitary music-makers. 3. A microscopic view analyzing the automusication of several informants through close dialectic feedback interviews and recording analysis.},
	language = {eng},
	publisher = {ProQuest Dissertations \& Theses,},
	author = {Bennett, Ryland},
	year = {2015},
	note = {ISBN: 9781321770025
Place: Ann Arbor
Publication Title: Behind Closed Doors: A Study of Solitary Music Making},
	keywords = {Musicians},
}

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