Kayla Rush
Biographic Data
| ID | 97898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kayla Rush |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kayla |
| FAMILY NAME | Rush |
| SIGNATURE | RUSH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dundalk Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1236-9986 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Riff capital
This article introduces and develops the theoretical concept of riff capital. It posits riff capital as a specific form of cultural capital that circulates among children and young people learning popular music, transmitted within educational spaces but largely separate from adult educators and formal and non-formal pedagogical processes. Grounded in an ethnographic case study of a private-sector popular music education organization in Dublin, Ir…
Learning strategies and multimusicality in ear-learning tasks
This article reports on a small-scale experimental pilot study examining instrumentalists’ techniques for aural learning of new melodies from various cultural traditions, with the goal of contributing to a contemporary understanding of multimusicality. It examines what strategies musicians employ to learn new melodies and whether these strategies vary when the musicians are asked to learn melodies from unfamiliar music-cultures. The study partici…
Riff Culture
This article presents an ethnographic case study of Rock Jam, a private, extracurricular, fee-based popular music education organization in Dublin, Ireland. It examines the common free-time activity of spontaneous solo riff-playing, arguing that this activity is central to what happens socially, culturally, and musically at Rock Jam. After providing a new definition of riffs, it interrogates how riffs are used in this context, examining their sim…
Is “Watching and Copying” the New “Listening and Copying”
This article examines the role of YouTube in how young popular musicians learn in the twenty-first century. I frame this question within the dual legacies of Lucy Green’s (2001) findings about “listening and copying” among popular musicians and Marc Prensky’s (2001a, 2001b) “digital natives” hypothesis. I present an ethnographic description of a music learning encounter that raises questions as to whether there is a generational change occurring,…
The Cracked Art World
This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world. This is a Northern Ireland that is conflicted, segregated, and marginalized within modern Europe, but also hopeful and forward looking, seeking to articulate for itself a new plac…
When discomfort enters our skin
Created around, through and within discomfort, this piece weaves together the voices of five feminist scholars in an exploration of troubling affective and emotional experiences, offering material for critical theorizing and engaged scholarship. This inquiry started at a conference panel in July 2019. Taking on the invitation made by the editors of Feminist Anthropology for the five of us to write in conversation, this piece also responds to Apri…
Aesthetics of Religion
Aesthetics of Religion: A Connective Concept is a highly ambitious book. In this volume, editors Alexandra K. Grieser and Jay Johnston, together with an interdisciplinary group of scholars, seek to
Cross(ing) the peace walls in West Belfast
This article examines a series of spatial practices called ‘cross walks’ and ‘cross vigils’ undertaken by a Pentecostal Christian church in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. It discusses the ways in which cross walk and vigil participants used imitative practices to bring divine power to bear on the urban spaces and place-specific issues of the church's local area. The article begins by discussing the church itself, and the ways in which participan…
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Aesthetics of Religion
Aesthetics of Religion: A Connective Concept is a highly ambitious book. In this volume, editors Alexandra K. Grieser and Jay Johnston, together with an interdisciplinary group of scholars, seek to
Cross(ing) the peace walls in West Belfast
This article examines a series of spatial practices called ‘cross walks’ and ‘cross vigils’ undertaken by a Pentecostal Christian church in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. It discusses the ways in which cross walk and vigil participants used imitative practices to bring divine power to bear on the urban spaces and place-specific issues of the church's local area. The article begins by discussing the church itself, and the ways in which participan…
When discomfort enters our skin
Created around, through and within discomfort, this piece weaves together the voices of five feminist scholars in an exploration of troubling affective and emotional experiences, offering material for critical theorizing and engaged scholarship. This inquiry started at a conference panel in July 2019. Taking on the invitation made by the editors of Feminist Anthropology for the five of us to write in conversation, this piece also responds to Apri…
The Cracked Art World
This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world. This is a Northern Ireland that is conflicted, segregated, and marginalized within modern Europe, but also hopeful and forward looking, seeking to articulate for itself a new plac…
Is “Watching and Copying” the New “Listening and Copying”
This article examines the role of YouTube in how young popular musicians learn in the twenty-first century. I frame this question within the dual legacies of Lucy Green’s (2001) findings about “listening and copying” among popular musicians and Marc Prensky’s (2001a, 2001b) “digital natives” hypothesis. I present an ethnographic description of a music learning encounter that raises questions as to whether there is a generational change occurring,…
Learning strategies and multimusicality in ear-learning tasks
This article reports on a small-scale experimental pilot study examining instrumentalists’ techniques for aural learning of new melodies from various cultural traditions, with the goal of contributing to a contemporary understanding of multimusicality. It examines what strategies musicians employ to learn new melodies and whether these strategies vary when the musicians are asked to learn melodies from unfamiliar music-cultures. The study partici…
Riff Culture
This article presents an ethnographic case study of Rock Jam, a private, extracurricular, fee-based popular music education organization in Dublin, Ireland. It examines the common free-time activity of spontaneous solo riff-playing, arguing that this activity is central to what happens socially, culturally, and musically at Rock Jam. After providing a new definition of riffs, it interrogates how riffs are used in this context, examining their sim…
Riff capital
This article introduces and develops the theoretical concept of riff capital. It posits riff capital as a specific form of cultural capital that circulates among children and young people learning popular music, transmitted within educational spaces but largely separate from adult educators and formal and non-formal pedagogical processes. Grounded in an ethnographic case study of a private-sector popular music education organization in Dublin, Ir…
Art (5 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)