Disability and Musicking - by Leon de Bruin & Jane Southcott & Anthea Skinner (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book reworks social resources and social movements perceived in disability studies, offering approaches that thread diverse disabled musicking, marking the innovative social, physical and temporal relationships music is produced, transmitted, used, and judged.

Book Synopsis

Musicking, Resistances and Disabilities sets to rework the social resources and social movements perceived in disability studies by challenging approaches wherein music is detached from the social relationships in which it is produced, transmitted, used, and judged. The authors contribute compelling insights of disabled musicking, balancing experience of time, engagement and experiential encounters with personal creativity, and temporal existence. Adopting a new turn in critical disability studies, this book asserts democratic, equitable, inclusive, accessible, emancipatory, and innovative practices in disabled musicking, and the creative and innovative experimentation in musicmaking practices that highlight a new sociocultural and performative paradigm for disabled musicking worldwide.

Review Quotes

"The authors and editors of this text consider the constructions of (dis)ability, inclusive curriculum design, and perspectives/approaches of disabled people in, through, and around music. In doing so, they demonstrate a "disabled turn" in music education scholarship. This turn is facilitated through the use of theoretical frames drawn from disability studies and related fields. The authors provide a mix of the empirical, theoretical, and practical and may well become a foundational text for its mix of contemporary disability theorization, attention to performativities, and expansive epistemological orientation in, through, and around music." --Jesse Rathgeber, University of Wisconsin-Madison

About the Author

Leon de Bruin is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Melbourne, Conservatorium of Music, and coordinator of the Master of Music-Performance Teaching degree program.

Anthea Skinner is an ethnomusicologist and a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.

Jane Southcott is a Professor, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.