M Rimmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 30483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Rimmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rimmer |
| SIGNATURE | RIMMER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6916-6795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beginning at the Beginning: Towards a Trans-actional Music Sociology
Music sociology has proven a fertile arena for the study and theorization of object-subject interaction, with the work of scholars such as Tia DeNora and Antoine Hennion marking its key contribution to the 'new sociology of art'. Recent years have, however, witnessed no little debate amongst music sociologists about the broader purchase and value of such scholarship, especially considering its apparent challenge to Bourdieu's critical cultural so…
The art of survival: Community-based arts organisations in times of austerity
This article examines the consequences of shifts in the terms of engagement with the state – since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008 – for small-scale UK arts-based community organisations. Through an engagement with the accounts of key stakeholders from three case study organisations, the article considers the nature and extent of organisational changes in four main respects: the activities undertaken, the people and groups engage…
Too Big to Fail?: The Framing and Interpretation of ‘Success’/‘Failure’ in Cultural Participation Policy: A Case Study
THIS ARTICLE ENGAGES WITH QUESTIONS OF FAILURE IN CULTURAL PARTICIPATION THROUGH A REFLECTION UPON MATTERS OF INTERPRETATION AND MEANING. THAT IS, RATHER THAN CONSIDERING THE WAYS OR EXTENT TO WHICH CULTURAL PARTICIPATION PROGRAMMES MIGHT ACHIEVE THEIR STATED GOALS, THE DISCUSSION CENTRES UPON THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF REPRESENTATIONS AND PERCEPTIONS IN RELATION TO QUESTIONS OF ‘FAILURE’/‘SUCCESS’. THE DISCUSSION CENTRES UPON ONE CASE STUDY INITIATIVE,…
Music, middle childhood and agency: The value of aninteractional-relationalapproach
This article considers the implications of children’s out-of-school musical experiences and activities for conceptualisations of child agency. In particular, it engages with differing approaches to relational agency and considers their value for understanding music-related practice during middle childhood. Accounts from children (n = 111) living in three parts of England are explored, and the subsequent analysis provides the basis for proposing t…
Doing what needs to be done’: Understandings of UK-based community music – reflections and implications
This article discusses two key themes emerging from a recent research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the aim of which was to improve understanding of the historic, current, and potential roles that community music (CM) can play in promoting community engagement in the United Kingdom. The network’s activities consisted of a series of themed meetings held in 2013 and 2014, which brought together practitioners and…
The Use of Neutron Analysis Techniques for Detecting The Concentration And Distribution of Chloride Ions in Archaeological Iron
Chloride ( C l) ions diffuse into iron objects during burial and drive corrosion after excavation. Located under corrosion layers, C l is inaccessible to many analytical techniques. Neutron analysis offers non‐destructive avenues for determining C l content and distribution in objects. A pilot study used prompt gamma activation analysis ( PGAA ) and prompt gamma activation imaging ( PGAI ) to analyse the bulk concentration and longitudinal distri…
Can You Hear Me Now? Musical Values, Education and ‘Voice
This article addresses a number of questions concerning the use of music by young people. In particular, the argument presented seeks to bring to the fore a set of concerns whose significance is often overlooked or downplayed in debates about young people's engagements with music. These relate to music's capacity to function, on the one hand, in a way that reflects and embodies ethical and ideological commitments of varying kinds and, on the othe…
Beyond Omnivores and Univores: The Promise of a Concept of Musical Habitus
In recent years the omnivore thesis has come to take centre stage in debates surrounding cultural taste and its social structural co-ordinates. On the assumption that tastes for music are reflective of people's tastes in other cultural domains, the matter of musical preference has received substantial attention within omnivore-related empirical research. Yet while the ongoing omnivore debate has seen the concept's original formulation undergo rev…
The participation and decision making of ‘at risk’ youth in community music projects: An exploration of three case studies
In the UK, recent years have witnessed a considerable growth in youth participation activities that seek to involve children and young people in various forms of decision-making. One such form of youth participation to benefit from increased government support since the late 1990s concerns community arts activities, especially those targeting young people considered to be ‘at risk’. While there exists a developing international literature explori…
Listening to the monkey: Class, youth and the formation of a musical habitus
This article explores the musical lives and music-related activities of a group of young people living on a deprived housing estate in North East England. Through the use of ethnography, I uncover how central aspects of these young people's taste for, and uses of, their preferred 'new monkey' music function in respect of the values inscribed in their community's past, the problems and challenges facing them in the present, as well as their antici…
Instrumental’ playing? Cultural policy and young people's community music participation
Over recent years, young people's participation in small‐scale, locally based arts activities has increasingly come to be viewed by policy‐makers as capable of playing a valuable role in both re‐engaging ‘at‐risk’ youth with mainstream education and providing a means through which communities might combat social exclusion. For some commentators, however, the political imperatives underpinning this approach sit uncomfortably with the multifarious …
Beyond Omnivores and Univores: The Promise of a Concept of Musical Habitus
In recent years the omnivore thesis has come to take centre stage in debates surrounding cultural taste and its social structural co-ordinates. On the assumption that tastes for music are reflective of people's tastes in other cultural domains, the matter of musical preference has received substantial attention within omnivore-related empirical research. Yet while the ongoing omnivore debate has seen the concept's original formulation undergo rev…
Instrumental’ playing? Cultural policy and young people's community music participation
Over recent years, young people's participation in small‐scale, locally based arts activities has increasingly come to be viewed by policy‐makers as capable of playing a valuable role in both re‐engaging ‘at‐risk’ youth with mainstream education and providing a means through which communities might combat social exclusion. For some commentators, however, the political imperatives underpinning this approach sit uncomfortably with the multifarious …
The participation and decision making of ‘at risk’ youth in community music projects: An exploration of three case studies
In the UK, recent years have witnessed a considerable growth in youth participation activities that seek to involve children and young people in various forms of decision-making. One such form of youth participation to benefit from increased government support since the late 1990s concerns community arts activities, especially those targeting young people considered to be ‘at risk’. While there exists a developing international literature explori…
Listening to the monkey: Class, youth and the formation of a musical habitus
This article explores the musical lives and music-related activities of a group of young people living on a deprived housing estate in North East England. Through the use of ethnography, I uncover how central aspects of these young people's taste for, and uses of, their preferred 'new monkey' music function in respect of the values inscribed in their community's past, the problems and challenges facing them in the present, as well as their antici…
Beginning at the Beginning: Towards a Trans-actional Music Sociology
Music sociology has proven a fertile arena for the study and theorization of object-subject interaction, with the work of scholars such as Tia DeNora and Antoine Hennion marking its key contribution to the 'new sociology of art'. Recent years have, however, witnessed no little debate amongst music sociologists about the broader purchase and value of such scholarship, especially considering its apparent challenge to Bourdieu's critical cultural so…
Music, middle childhood and agency: The value of aninteractional-relationalapproach
This article considers the implications of children’s out-of-school musical experiences and activities for conceptualisations of child agency. In particular, it engages with differing approaches to relational agency and considers their value for understanding music-related practice during middle childhood. Accounts from children (n = 111) living in three parts of England are explored, and the subsequent analysis provides the basis for proposing t…
Instrumental’ playing? Cultural policy and young people's community music participation
Over recent years, young people's participation in small‐scale, locally based arts activities has increasingly come to be viewed by policy‐makers as capable of playing a valuable role in both re‐engaging ‘at‐risk’ youth with mainstream education and providing a means through which communities might combat social exclusion. For some commentators, however, the political imperatives underpinning this approach sit uncomfortably with the multifarious …
Listening to the monkey: Class, youth and the formation of a musical habitus
This article explores the musical lives and music-related activities of a group of young people living on a deprived housing estate in North East England. Through the use of ethnography, I uncover how central aspects of these young people's taste for, and uses of, their preferred 'new monkey' music function in respect of the values inscribed in their community's past, the problems and challenges facing them in the present, as well as their antici…
The participation and decision making of ‘at risk’ youth in community music projects: An exploration of three case studies
In the UK, recent years have witnessed a considerable growth in youth participation activities that seek to involve children and young people in various forms of decision-making. One such form of youth participation to benefit from increased government support since the late 1990s concerns community arts activities, especially those targeting young people considered to be ‘at risk’. While there exists a developing international literature explori…
Beyond Omnivores and Univores: The Promise of a Concept of Musical Habitus
In recent years the omnivore thesis has come to take centre stage in debates surrounding cultural taste and its social structural co-ordinates. On the assumption that tastes for music are reflective of people's tastes in other cultural domains, the matter of musical preference has received substantial attention within omnivore-related empirical research. Yet while the ongoing omnivore debate has seen the concept's original formulation undergo rev…
Can You Hear Me Now? Musical Values, Education and ‘Voice
This article addresses a number of questions concerning the use of music by young people. In particular, the argument presented seeks to bring to the fore a set of concerns whose significance is often overlooked or downplayed in debates about young people's engagements with music. These relate to music's capacity to function, on the one hand, in a way that reflects and embodies ethical and ideological commitments of varying kinds and, on the othe…
The Use of Neutron Analysis Techniques for Detecting The Concentration And Distribution of Chloride Ions in Archaeological Iron
Chloride ( C l) ions diffuse into iron objects during burial and drive corrosion after excavation. Located under corrosion layers, C l is inaccessible to many analytical techniques. Neutron analysis offers non‐destructive avenues for determining C l content and distribution in objects. A pilot study used prompt gamma activation analysis ( PGAA ) and prompt gamma activation imaging ( PGAI ) to analyse the bulk concentration and longitudinal distri…
Doing what needs to be done’: Understandings of UK-based community music – reflections and implications
This article discusses two key themes emerging from a recent research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the aim of which was to improve understanding of the historic, current, and potential roles that community music (CM) can play in promoting community engagement in the United Kingdom. The network’s activities consisted of a series of themed meetings held in 2013 and 2014, which brought together practitioners and…
Music, middle childhood and agency: The value of aninteractional-relationalapproach
This article considers the implications of children’s out-of-school musical experiences and activities for conceptualisations of child agency. In particular, it engages with differing approaches to relational agency and considers their value for understanding music-related practice during middle childhood. Accounts from children (n = 111) living in three parts of England are explored, and the subsequent analysis provides the basis for proposing t…
The art of survival: Community-based arts organisations in times of austerity
This article examines the consequences of shifts in the terms of engagement with the state – since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008 – for small-scale UK arts-based community organisations. Through an engagement with the accounts of key stakeholders from three case study organisations, the article considers the nature and extent of organisational changes in four main respects: the activities undertaken, the people and groups engage…
Too Big to Fail?: The Framing and Interpretation of ‘Success’/‘Failure’ in Cultural Participation Policy: A Case Study
THIS ARTICLE ENGAGES WITH QUESTIONS OF FAILURE IN CULTURAL PARTICIPATION THROUGH A REFLECTION UPON MATTERS OF INTERPRETATION AND MEANING. THAT IS, RATHER THAN CONSIDERING THE WAYS OR EXTENT TO WHICH CULTURAL PARTICIPATION PROGRAMMES MIGHT ACHIEVE THEIR STATED GOALS, THE DISCUSSION CENTRES UPON THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF REPRESENTATIONS AND PERCEPTIONS IN RELATION TO QUESTIONS OF ‘FAILURE’/‘SUCCESS’. THE DISCUSSION CENTRES UPON ONE CASE STUDY INITIATIVE,…
Beginning at the Beginning: Towards a Trans-actional Music Sociology
Music sociology has proven a fertile arena for the study and theorization of object-subject interaction, with the work of scholars such as Tia DeNora and Antoine Hennion marking its key contribution to the 'new sociology of art'. Recent years have, however, witnessed no little debate amongst music sociologists about the broader purchase and value of such scholarship, especially considering its apparent challenge to Bourdieu's critical cultural so…
Sociology (10 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Musical (4 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (4 works) · Social science (4 works)