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  • Letting it go: An autoethnographic account of a musician’s loss

    Author(s)
    Grant, Catherine
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Grant, Catherine F.
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    This personal narrative traces the impact of performance-related injury on the author. Contextualising my own experiences alongside the testimonies of other musicians, I explore the non-clinical impact of injury: the social, the emotional, and psychological, including issues connecting music-making to identity and esteem. In chronicling my own subjective experiences as a layered account (Ronai, 1992), I hope to illuminate the complex and intimate relationship between musician and the act of music-making, thereby also revealing the multiplicity of factors involved in coping with a performance-related injury. A long-standing ...
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    This personal narrative traces the impact of performance-related injury on the author. Contextualising my own experiences alongside the testimonies of other musicians, I explore the non-clinical impact of injury: the social, the emotional, and psychological, including issues connecting music-making to identity and esteem. In chronicling my own subjective experiences as a layered account (Ronai, 1992), I hope to illuminate the complex and intimate relationship between musician and the act of music-making, thereby also revealing the multiplicity of factors involved in coping with a performance-related injury. A long-standing taboo has likely contributed to a dearth of autoethnographic stories among research on musicians' health. Here, I move away "from the gaze of the distanced and detached observer, toward the embrace of intimate involvement, engagement, and embodied participation" (Ellis & Bochner, 2006, pp. 433-434) and attempt to demonstrate the legitimacy and value of introducing the first-person voice into the growing body of work on health in the performing arts.
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    Book Title
    Music autoethnographies: making autoethnography sing / making music persinal
    Publisher URI
    http://www.academia.edu/1253294/Letting_it_go_An_autoethnographic_account_of_a_musicians_loss
    Copyright Statement
    Self-archiving is not yet supported by this publisher. Please refer to the publisher's website or contact the author for more information.
    Subject
    Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/48601
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