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  • Elder Music, Instrumental Music Performance and Affirmative Aging

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    Author(s)
    Harvey, James
    Primary Supervisor
    Cunio, Kim
    Other Supervisors
    Luff, Peter
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    Elder Music, Instrumental Music Performance and Affirmative Aging is a Practice-led research project in Community Music performance. A phenomenological, autoethnographic critique of lived musical experience by a senior, former professional musician returning to an accomplished instrumental music performance practice after a playing hiatus of twenty-four years. Research that arose in response to this personal aesthetic process resulted in a performance-led community music investigation, detailing the journey of a musician returning to active performance, without claiming to be either unique or typical. It is both a chronicle ...
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    Elder Music, Instrumental Music Performance and Affirmative Aging is a Practice-led research project in Community Music performance. A phenomenological, autoethnographic critique of lived musical experience by a senior, former professional musician returning to an accomplished instrumental music performance practice after a playing hiatus of twenty-four years. Research that arose in response to this personal aesthetic process resulted in a performance-led community music investigation, detailing the journey of a musician returning to active performance, without claiming to be either unique or typical. It is both a chronicle articulating the incidence and benefice of later life music making and a report on how this experiential and artistic process involves many mature musicians. Qualitative artistic research revealing a context to the breadth of active involvement and commitment of older musicians, who are not only quantitatively significant and noteworthy in their numbers and musical influence, but in also reflecting the positive benefits of community music making within our society in promoting personal and collective wellness, vitality and social bonding through collegial expressions of abstract musical truth and beauty.
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (Masters)
    Degree Program
    Master of Music Research (MMusRes)
    School
    Queensland Conservatorium
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/1307
    Copyright Statement
    The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
    Item Access Status
    Public
    Subject
    Community music performance
    Lived musical experience
    Musicians
    Instrumental musicians
    Musical influences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366040
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    • Theses - Higher Degree by Research

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