Adolescents on Music

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Cassidy Parker
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Book Research ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Musical Development ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Vision

Adolescents on Music foregrounds the voices of 30 American adolescent musicians, ages 12–18. Adolescent singer-songwriters, studio and solo musicians, rappers, composers and arrangers, and band, choir, and orchestra members tell about their musical development and what it is like to make music by themselves and others. Situated in these 30 adolescents’ experiences is a theory of adolescent musical development—a theory that will help music educators support adolescents in their lives. The book is structured in three parts: Part I focuses on “who I am” with an in-depth look at musical identities; Part II explores “the social self” by investigating adolescent experiences of belonging, community, and social identity; Part III looks toward “a future vision” focusing on adolescent perspectives on their future and their advice for music educators. In the last chapter, Parker proposes one philosophy of adolescent music-making. Throughout the book, research from the arts, social and natural sciences, humanities, and education dimensionalize adolescent perspectives. Special features of this book include “Step Back” locations, reflective spaces for the reader to draw connections with adolescents’ experience and their own experiences. At the end of each chapter, the “Wrap Up” allows additional spaces for topics, questions, and possibilities for effective teaching interactions. Between each chapter are “Interludes” written by one or more of the 30 adolescent contributors.

Trans Voices Speak: Suggestions from Trans Educators about Working with Trans Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Christopher Cayari ◽  
Felix A. Graham ◽  
Emma Joy Jampole ◽  
Jared O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
The Past ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music Classrooms

The social climate in the past decade has seen a rise in visibility of trans students in music classrooms and ensembles, leading to a need for scholarship on how to serve this growing population. Literature is being published to address this topic; however, the lack of scholarship by trans educators might lead many music educators to conclusions and practices that can be, at the very least, discouraging to some trans students and may disrupt their learning experiences. This article was written by four educators who identify as part of the trans community (a genderfluid and gender-nonconforming individual, a trans man, a trans woman, and a gender-nonbinary person) to fill this gap in the literature by illuminating some of the pitfalls inherent in the lack of discussion on (and by) trans people in music education. In addition, this article provides five actionable suggestions for working with trans students: (1) Learn about the trans community, (2) inspect your language and biases, (3) represent the diversity of trans people in your teaching, (4) promote healthy music-making and identity development, and (5) model allyship.

scholarly journals Consumers’ brand identity complexity: conceptualization and predictive ability

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich R. Orth ◽  
Gregory M. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Brand Identity ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Identity Complexity ◽  
Social Identity Complexity

Purpose This study aims to integrate Roccas and Brewer’s (2002) social identity complexity theory with the brand symbolism literature to propose a new construct: brand identity complexity (BIC). Different than previous conceptualizations of identity complexity which focus on the degree of internal differentiation of the personal self, BIC focuses on the degree of complexity in the social self and is defined as a consumer’s subjective representation and psychological state of belongingness to multiple identity-constructing brand ingroups. BIC impacts the adoption of new brands as they relate to the social self. Design/methodology/approach Three experiments were performed to test BIC’s predictive power. Study 1 measures BIC and tests its influence on the adoption of new brands positioned as unique. Study 2 manipulates BIC through priming and tests its influence on the adoption of new brands that appeal to independence. Study 3 also manipulates BIC and examines its influence on the adoption of brand extensions. Findings Study 1 demonstrates that high BIC consumers are more likely to adopt a new brand that appeals to a unique social self. Study 2 shows that high BIC individuals are more likely to adopt a new brand that appeals to an independent self. Study 3 shows that high BIC consumers are more likely to adopt a brand extension with a low fit to the parent category. All three studies offer evidence of the mediating role of identity-driven payoffs. Research limitations/implications The findings suggest that individuals perceive their multiple brand ingroups to be more or less complex. This outcome merges the social identity theory with consumer–brand relationship research and adds to an emerging stream of research that explores personal, situational and cultural differences in the social self and its relation to commercial offers. Practical implications Marketers can benefit from the findings by better understanding which brand appeals will be more effective with target consumers and under what conditions. Originality/value This research develops a conceptual framework for understanding the development of brand ingroup-based identity complexity.

scholarly journals Social Science, Philosophy and Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
Robin Barrow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
Individual Success

This essay argues for the urgent need for philosophy as the necessary first step in any educational undertaking. Philosophy is involved with making fine distinctions which are necessary to clarify concepts and terms. The paper focuses primarily on the problems with an overreliance on scientific research in the social sciences, with special emphasis on the dangers posed in educational research. Three specific problems are identified. First, the emphasis on scientific research downgrades non-scientific research, which may be more appropriate as modes of inquiry in many aspects of education. Second, the emphasis on scientific research distorts research in areas such as the arts and humanities because individual success as a scholar is largely measured by criteria that make sense in the natural sciences but not necessarily in the arts. Third, and most significantly, the paper questions whether social action and interaction can be investigated in a truly scientific manner.

scholarly journals Saman dan Bines : Pertemuan Tari Tradisi Pada Peristiwa Budaya Bejamu Saman di Gayo Lues, Aceh

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 658-670
Author(s):  
Sabri Gusmail ◽  
Fifie Febryanti Sukman ◽  
Prasika Dewi Nugra
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Cultural Event ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Supporting Material

Saman and Bines dance is a traditional art from Gayo Lues, a very inherent existence in the supporting community as a dance that is specifically danced by men for Saman and women for Bines. In this article, the author describes the presentation of the arts at the Bejamu Saman cultural event. As a cultural heritage, the presentation of Saman and Bines in Bejamu Saman activities is the focus of research, how to present Saman and Bines in Bejamu Saman cultural events. This research uses qualitative methods, namely data that has been collected in the field regarding the Saman and Bines dance on Bejamu Saman activities and other data related to the object and focus of the research. The data obtained were then analyzed descriptively-analytically with a textual analysis approach. The purpose of this research was to describe the presentation form of the Saman and Bines dance in Bejamu Saman activities. So that the results of this research can be used as supporting material in future Saman and Bines dance research. Understand the differences in the presentation of Saman and Bines as a spectacle and or as a series of cultural activities. Obtain information related to Bejamu Saman, a cultural event of the Gayo Lues community that represents the social identity of the Gayo Lues community in a reflection of the nation's character.

Citation Indexes: Uses and Misuses

Modern China ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 559-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip C. C. Huang
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Tidal Waves ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Citation Indexes ◽  
The Social

The Web of Science citation indexes were originally intended to serve as research aids, to provide easy-to-use bibliographic aids for authors, help authors identify colleagues who have cited their work, and assist librarians in making selections among journals. But they were soon carried by the tidal waves of scientism and data-ism, first in business management and governance, and then also in scholarly research, to near-monopolistic control of the business of journals evaluation in the United States (though increasingly challenged in some areas by the more recent but similar Scopus citation indexes). With that dominance, earlier tentative generalizations based on limited research gradually became more and more rigidified “laws” that have been strictly enforced: that quality can be scientifically measured by the number of articles that cite the article or a particular journal, and, by extension, that the importance and contribution of a scholar’s article, like that of a journal, can be determined by its “impact factor” measured by counting the number of articles citing it. Those “laws” came to be applied first to the natural sciences, extended to the social sciences, and finally also to major spheres of the arts and humanities. Today, they have come to dominate the entire continuum of disciplines and fields ranging from the most universalist of the natural sciences, in which truths may be established by reproducible experiments, to the more particularist social sciences, and still more particularist arts and humanities, in which theories, even facts, are far more contested and tentative. As we move across the spectrum from the more universalist end of natural sciences toward the more particularist end of the social sciences and arts and humanities, such methods have tended to violate ever more the fundamental nature and realities of scholarly research. However, once entrenched, the citation indexes business has shown the same tendencies as any monopolistic entity toward resisting change and transparency. Where those tendencies have been adopted by a centralized government for bureaucratized control, as in China, the misuses and abuses of citation indexes have been further magnified. This article ends by calling for developing more substantive, genuinely peer-review-based methods of evaluation; for relying more on alternative nonprofit bibliographic and data services; and for greater inclusivity, especially with regard to scholarship in languages other than English.

Becoming a Music Learner: Toward a Theory of Transformative Music Engagement

2012 ◽  
pp. 162-186
Author(s):  
Susan A. O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
Musical Development ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Conscious Effort ◽  
Dynamic Potential ◽  
Social Affiliations ◽  
The Social

This article argues for shifts in our thinking about music learners to emphasize the dynamic potential of each individual and the social affiliations that promote music learning, as well as the need for music learning to be conceptualized as positive and purposeful transformative music engagement. It suggests that we might begin with a conscious effort to scrutinize the origins of our expectations of music learners, how music learners make sense of their own experiences, and our understanding of those experiences. The article also discusses the need to expand our awareness of the multifaceted ways that music learning is taking place in today's digital age, and to examine more deeply what it means to prepare and engage music learners in multimodal and participatory forms of music-making. The transition to a new paradigm for music learning will be complete when transformations have occurred in how we view music learners in relation to their own musical worlds; the methods we use to study them so that they take into account particular contexts and cultural ecologies; and the goals we pursue to empower learners as active agents in their own musical development.

From çingene Accompanist to Instrumental Soloist

2019 ◽  
pp. 193-219
Author(s):  
Sonia Tamar Seeman
Keyword(s):  
Musical Analysis ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Musical Space ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Dance ◽  
The Prestige

Alongside state discourses of canonical Turkish music, local commercial recording companies relied on the innovative skills of Romani instrumentalists who could generate a variety of urban dance tunes for the burgeoning record market. By conferring the prestige of nightclub music on these instrumental compositions, these new Romani instrumental stars opened up a musical space for hearing negative “çingene” identity as prestigious “Roman.” Biographies of artists Haydar Tatlıyay, Şükrü Tunar, Kadri Şençalar, and Mustafa Kandıralı focus on their mediation of community-based music-making with nightclub and state radio styles. This chapter presents musical analysis of the link between keriz and the structuring of oyun havası in the first mass-produced recorded presentation of the social term, “Roman” by Yılmaz Şanlıel and Nazif Girgin. By introducing the group name “Roman” and “Romen” as a musical label for keriz-based instrumental dance music, these artists founded a genre and stylistic space for incremental revisions of social self-representation.

scholarly journals Introduction: Knowledge of Birds and Feathers in the Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerican World

Ethnohistory ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-354
Author(s):  
Lisa Sousa ◽  
Allison Caplan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Art History ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Civilizations

Abstract Birds and their feathers have long occupied a unique place in the social, cultural, and intellectual life of the Americas. This was particularly so in Mesoamerica, where ancient civilizations and colonial societies developed extensive knowledge of birds, their behaviors and habitats, and their vibrant plumage. This special issue brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including art history, history, and biology, to promote discussion among the arts, social sciences, and natural sciences on the role of birds and feathers in Mesoamerica. This introductory essay first provides a discussion of the major trends in the scholarship on birds and feathers in ancient and colonial Mesoamerica. It then highlights the contributions of the articles in the special issue to our understanding of the multifaceted roles that both symbolic and real birds and their feathers played in indigenous and transatlantic knowledge systems and societies.

I Want to Be Like You

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Matschke ◽  
Kai Sassenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Approach And Avoidance ◽  
Internal Motivation ◽  
Avoidance Strategies ◽  
Social Identity Development

Entering a new group provides the potential of forming a new social identity. Starting from self-regulation models, we propose that goals (e.g., internal motivation to enter the group), strategies (e.g., approach and avoidance strategies), and events (e.g., the group’s response) affect the development of the social self. In two studies we manipulated the group’s response (acceptance vs. rejection) and assessed internal motivation as well as approach and avoidance strategies. It was expected, and we found, that when newcomers are accepted, their use of approach strategies (but not avoidance strategies) facilitates social identification. In line with self-completion theory, for highly internally motivated individuals approach strategies facilitated social identification even upon rejection. The results underline the active role of newcomers in their social identity development.

Knowledge Contribution in Organizations via Social Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Behringer ◽  
Kai Sassenberg ◽  
Annika Scholl
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Expectancy Theory ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Abstract Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Willingness To Contribute ◽  
Social Media Tool

Abstract. Knowledge exchange via social media is crucial for organizational success. Yet, many employees only read others’ contributions without actively contributing their knowledge. We thus examined predictors of the willingness to contribute knowledge. Applying social identity theory and expectancy theory to knowledge exchange, we investigated the interplay of users’ identification with their organization and perceived usefulness of a social media tool. In two studies, identification facilitated users’ willingness to contribute knowledge – provided that the social media tool seemed useful (vs. not-useful). Interestingly, identification also raised the importance of acquiring knowledge collectively, which could in turn compensate for low usefulness of the tool. Hence, considering both social and media factors is crucial to enhance employees’ willingness to share knowledge via social media.

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