Jane W Davidson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 148571 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jane W Davidson |
| PRENOMES | Jane W |
| SOBRENOME | Davidson |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIDSON J W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4941-9518 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1953 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Understanding the attraction to music containing violent themes
Fans of music containing violent themes can experience positive affective, social, and well-being benefits from engagement with music. However, there is a gap in understanding why people are attracted to such music in the first place, as violently themed music is often considered offensive, disturbing, and repulsive by many nonfans. Recent research has found that morbid curiosity, a fascination with death and threatening situations and phenomena,…
Seven-year-old beginner cellists’ lived experiences of music performance
Music performance is a demanding activity requiring complex coordination of abilities from diverse domains. It can be perceived as a form of artistic expression and communication but experienced as a demonstration of personal competency with emotional ramifications that affect musicians’ ongoing interest and motivations. Participating in music performance is often a key part of musical development; however, children’s perspectives on formative ex…
Transformative engagement with community music-making for older adults
Music has impact on cognition, emotions, sense of self, the body, and social interaction. Through these multiple effects, engagement with music-making can bring positive change, with transformative potential. For older adults, documented experiences of positive change in published studies fall into broad areas of self-perception, quality of life, and personal growth. Yet in these same studies, there is no accepted definition of the experience of …
Practitioner experiences of intercultural music engagement (Icme) in the community arts sector
As our societies become increasingly diverse, empathy and intercultural understanding have become essential for sustaining socially cohesive communities. Community arts programs have become key sites for fostering connection and understanding between dominant and minority cultures, particularly through showcasing the works of minority artists. Yet, despite growing political support for organizations in this sector, recent research suggests that s…
Building social connection and inclusion through rock music in the Western Balkans
This article explores community-based rock music education as a site for strengthening social cohesion in a context of postwar, interethnic divisions. Focusing on small and incremental changes, it examines the practices of Music Connects, a project in the Western Balkans, and its goals of revitalizing rock culture in support of a more inclusive social life and greater freedom of movement in the region. The article explores the ways that an organi…
Examining the empathic voice teacher
Empathy enables successful communication and connection between teachers and their students, yet few studies have investigated its specific use in teaching singing. Addressing this gap, we interviewed voice teachers to discover how they articulate their pedagogy in terms of empathic practices and observed one-to-one lessons for evidence of the same. A sample of 27 classical and music theater voice teachers in Australia (70% females, 30% males), a…
Uncovering children’s experiences of emergent learning difficulties in the instrumental music studio
When children commence instrumental music tuition, learning difficulties can emerge to disrupt predictable learning processes and impact musical development. However, children’s experiences of learning difficulties, including how they present, are managed and can be supported, are rarely examined in music research. This longitudinal, qualitative study used Participatory Action Research and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis methodologies to…
Music facilitation styles and behaviours across the health-care continuum
These skilled facilitators showed flexibility, always aiming to accommodate participants' needs, and revealing new evidence of a common approach to music facilitation across different types of participant groups
Wellbeing in Professional Chamber Music Performance Contexts
The factors influencing wellbeing for musicians, audience members, and concert venue staff in professional chamber music performance contexts are considered using exploratory data collected from a major Australian concert venue. Preliminary analysis of interview and survey data revealed a key topic of wellbeing, amongst other emergent themes. The wellbeing-relevant data were explored from a critical realist/contextualist approach using thematic …
Exploring the Real-World Applicability of an Intercultural Music Engagement (Icme) Framework
As our societies become increasingly multicultural, our collective ability to understand and tolerate differences is critical for social cohesion. Music has been used by many organisations to help foster connection across cultural divides, yet research suggests it is not always a simple exchange. This paper tests the feasibility of a framework formerly proposed by the current authors for helping people navigate the intercultural music experience,…
Intercultural Music Engagement over Electronic Bridges
This contribution details methodological adaptations of face-to-face ethnographic and participatory research approaches for the digital realm and examines emergent ethical concerns. It developed while a research team in Melbourne considered the implications of COVID-19 lockdown for their research on social connection through intercultural music engagement. Pursuing the proliferation of online music activity aimed at maintaining social bonds durin…
Adela and transformative learning
In what ways can a community music education project based on historical re-enactment be a vehicle for transformational learning, empowerment and reconnection with community? In 2018, Serenading Adela was performed to celebrate and remember the 100th anniversary of a moment in history when women sang under the prison cell window of Adela Pankhurst, an anti-conscriptionist. The operatic work, which recruited 100 adult participants, was conceived a…
Rich Intercultural Music Engagement Enhances Cultural Understanding
Rich intercultural music engagement (RIME) is an embodied form of engagement whereby individuals immerse themselves in foreign musical practice, for example, by learning a traditional instrument from that culture. The present investigation evaluated whether RIME with Chinese or Middle Eastern music can nurture intercultural understanding. White Australian participants were randomly assigned to one of two plucked-string groups: Chinese pipa ( n = …
Music, social cohesion, and intercultural understanding
Regional conflict, growing technological developments, and climate change have seen high migration rates, which are likely to rise. Discrimination and violence at the hands of host societies continue to threaten the well-being of immigrant communities, as well as wider social cohesion in migration destinations. The urgency of the situation has been highlighted in several international policy documents released since 2020 by the United Nations (UN…
An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition
Visitor responses to art exhibitions vary depending on visitor traits, the exhibition context, as well as the sensory engagement between visitor and exhibition. The present investigation explored visitors’ experiences of Love: Art of Emotions, a curated exhibition shown at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2017, which comprised a variety of artworks from the early modern period selected to address the broad theme of love. This article reports o…
The impact of biographical information about a composer on emotional responses to their music
This study investigated whether reading biographical information about the composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) before listening to his music would influence listeners’ self-reported emotional responses. The study involved 179 participants who completed an online listening exercise in which they read either a negative or a neutral biography of Zelenka, or no biography, before listening to two short excerpts of his music. After listening to eac…
How Can Music Engagement Address Loneliness? A Qualitative Study and Thematic Framework in the Context of Australia’s Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdowns
Social isolation and loneliness are serious public health concerns. Music engagement can strengthen social connections and reduce loneliness in some contexts, although how this occurs is not well understood; research suggests that music's capacity to manipulate perceptions of time and space is relevant. This study adopted a qualitative perspective to examine how music engagement shaped the experiences of residents of Victoria, Australia, during c…
What are the affordances of the digital music space in alternative education? A reflection on an exploratory music outreach project in rural Australia
In Australia, access to music education is inequitable due to the challenges of distance, different state education systems and a lack of resources in schools. As a means to address this social justice issue, we explore here the viability and effects of a digitally based music outreach programme undertaken in collaboration with Hands on Learning (HOL), an alternative education provider. The programme was delivered over 6 weeks using GarageBand to…
Investigating the Development and Reception of an Art Exhibition on the Theme of Early Modern Representations of Love
Can the modern‐day art gallery visitor access the historical emotional meaning of what is viewed? The present investigation explored Love: Art of Emotions , an exhibition curated and shown at the National Gallery of Victoria April–June 2017, which displayed a variety of artworks from the early modern period. The current article aimed to investigate both curator intentions and visitor reception of the exhibition. The project leader and the exhibit…
Fractured bonds and crystal capital
As COVID-19-driven lockdowns and social distancing became the new normal in 2020, musicians experienced a reshuffling of their social networks. This article uses in-depth interviews with nine community arts practitioners in Australia, Norway and the United States to explore the impact of COVID-19 on their ability to practise, collaborate and connect with their musical communities. Results showed that, while social distancing has significantly dis…
The rise of affectivism
From dropping out to dropping in
Continued participation in music has been associated with well-being outcomes, yet many either fail to begin or cease musical participation after limited exposure. The current research examined why individuals cease participating, focusing on identifying barriers to participation and the support needed to reengage in musical activities. A sample of 190 Australian residents (M age = 26.87; 75.80% female) who had ceased previous musical participati…
Music for good
This study investigates a large-scale community project that called for a long preparation period and involved over a hundred participants. The researchers were interested in the contributory factors that led participants and leaders to commit and persevere with the project, for which there were almost two years of planning and five months of rehearsals. The project related a suppressed wartime history and had re-enactment aspects. Interpretative…
Trait Empathy associated with Agreeableness and rhythmic entrainment in a spontaneous movement to music task
The simulation theory of empathy suggests that we use motor processing to empathise, through modelling the actions of others. Similarly, research into embodied music cognition posits that music, particularly musical rhythm, is perceived as a motor stimulus. In both cases, the human Mirror Neuron System (MNS) is put forward as a potential underlying mechanism. If this is the case, some overlap may exist between the ability to empathise with others…
Peace, Empathy and Conciliation through Music
Effects of group singing and performance for marginalized and middle-class singers
In western society music performance is generally considered from the perspective of the elite performer, and the performance literature within the psychology of music has been representative of this preoccupation. But, in spite of much attention being directed to the 'how' of creating exceptional performances, little attention has been given to the 'why' of performance. Results of an investigation with members of a choir for homeless men indicat…
Amateur Group Singing as a Therapeutic Instrument
This article presents a study of a choir of homeless men who experienced positive life transformations since joining the choir. In view of holistic health constructs which propose that overall health and life satisfaction are rooted in cultural practices, it was considered that involvement in group singing, in a community setting germane to the lifestyle of the participants, may have contributed to the positive outcomes. The results of an interpr…
Music, social cohesion, and intercultural understanding
Regional conflict, growing technological developments, and climate change have seen high migration rates, which are likely to rise. Discrimination and violence at the hands of host societies continue to threaten the well-being of immigrant communities, as well as wider social cohesion in migration destinations. The urgency of the situation has been highlighted in several international policy documents released since 2020 by the United Nations (UN…
The rise of affectivism
Characteristics of Music Teachers and the Progress of Young Instrumentalists
This study is an investigation of the role of some key characteristics of teachers in the development of students' musical ability. Interviewing 257 children who differed in the extent of their instrumental mastery, we discovered that the most successful learners regarded their teachers differently from those children who ceased music study. The more successful learners rated their first teacher higher than did other learners on personal dimensio…
The role of practice in the development of performing musicians
A sample of 257 young people aged between eight and 18 who had undertaken individual instrumental tuition were interviewed in depth about their performing history from the start of playing. A subset of 94 of these individuals also kept a practice diary for a 42-week period. The data collected allowed estimates to be calculated of the amount of time devoted to various types of practice and other activities. The sample was selected in order to enco…
Emotional Regimes Reflected in a Popular Ballad
‘Emotional regimes’ is a concept defined by William Reddy in 2001 and used in the history of emotions literature to refer to the modes of emotional expression and thought that are dominant in particular time periods and cultural contexts. Popular ballads provide a useful way of exploring emotions in their cultural contexts across different time periods because of their long life-span, and because of the way they are shaped and moulded by social b…
Introducing the Issue of Performativity in Music
The social context of musical success
This paper brings together extensive data from 257 children to explore the relative importance of social-environmental factors during critical periods of children's musical development. The paper also presents preliminary findings from a follow-up of 20 of the most musically successful children 8 years later to determine which childhood factors predict differences in success as adult performers. Those children who continued to play an instrument …
Exploring the Real-World Applicability of an Intercultural Music Engagement (Icme) Framework
As our societies become increasingly multicultural, our collective ability to understand and tolerate differences is critical for social cohesion. Music has been used by many organisations to help foster connection across cultural divides, yet research suggests it is not always a simple exchange. This paper tests the feasibility of a framework formerly proposed by the current authors for helping people navigate the intercultural music experience,…
New Zealand, 1820–1870
Teacher-student generated lessons
1986). Teacher‐student generated lessons: A model for reading instruction. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 25, Building Literacy, pp. 84-90
Visual Perception of Performance Manner in the Movements of Solo Musicians
The study of music perception has focused almost exclusively on sound, ignoring the role of seeing the performer's body movements. Whilst anecdotes frequently refer to the importance of the performer's movements, there is scant psychological evidence to support this finding. The closest equivalent work in visual event perception research has shown that covert mental dispositions (for instance, an intention to deceive an observer) are specified in…
Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance
Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance
The role of practice in the development of performing musicians
A sample of 257 young people aged between eight and 18 who had undertaken individual instrumental tuition were interviewed in depth about their performing history from the start of playing. A subset of 94 of these individuals also kept a practice diary for a 42-week period. The data collected allowed estimates to be calculated of the amount of time devoted to various types of practice and other activities. The sample was selected in order to enco…
Innate talents
Talents that selectively facilitate the acquisition of high levels of skill are said to be present in some children but not others. The evidence for this includes biological correlates of specific abilities, certain rare abilities in autistic savants, and the seemingly spontaneous emergence of exceptional abilities in young children, but there is also contrary evidence indicating an absence of early precursors of high skill levels. An analysis of…
Characteristics of Music Teachers and the Progress of Young Instrumentalists
This study is an investigation of the role of some key characteristics of teachers in the development of students' musical ability. Interviewing 257 children who differed in the extent of their instrumental mastery, we discovered that the most successful learners regarded their teachers differently from those children who ceased music study. The more successful learners rated their first teacher higher than did other learners on personal dimensio…
Investigating Performance Evaluation by Assessors of Singers in a Music College Setting
Although there is a long-established history of music performance assessment in musiccolleges, there has been little systematic research into potential assessing biases and how criteria are actually arrived at by assessment panels in order for decisions to be made. Indeed, at best, it appears that assessment is established upon tradition and intuition, rather than any systematic procedure. The current paper examines such issues in detailby follow…
The Role of the Body in the Production and Perception of Solo Vocal Performance
The work described in this paper interprets the body movements of singers in an attempt to understand the relationships between physical control and the musical material being performed, and the performer's implicit and explicit expressive intentions. The work builds upon a previous literature which has suggested that the relationship between physical execution and the expression of mental states is a subtle and complex one. For instance, perform…
Adaptive Characteristics of Group Singing
There is considerable evidence to suggest that music has adaptive characteristics. Individuals use recorded music to transform the emotional landscape to coincide with transitory needs and desires. Also, music has frequently been reported to provoke uncommon emotional and physical reactions often referred to as peak experiences. In many cultures, that have limited industrial and technological development, active participation in musical activitie…
Exploring Co-Performer Communication
This paper examines the development and implementation of general social and specific non-verbal communication between two expert pianists who prepared and gave a recital of piano duo and duet music. All ensemble rehearsals and the final performance were video-taped. Following the performance, the musicians were interviewed in order to document their thoughts on the learning and performance processes. From the video-taped rehearsals and performan…
The social context of musical success
This paper brings together extensive data from 257 children to explore the relative importance of social-environmental factors during critical periods of children's musical development. The paper also presents preliminary findings from a follow-up of 20 of the most musically successful children 8 years later to determine which childhood factors predict differences in success as adult performers. Those children who continued to play an instrument …
Amateur Group Singing as a Therapeutic Instrument
This article presents a study of a choir of homeless men who experienced positive life transformations since joining the choir. In view of holistic health constructs which propose that overall health and life satisfaction are rooted in cultural practices, it was considered that involvement in group singing, in a community setting germane to the lifestyle of the participants, may have contributed to the positive outcomes. The results of an interpr…
Men's Vocal Behaviour and the Construction of Self
The following paper considers the role of vocal behaviour in the construction of Self. It examines evidence from an ongoing research project investigating the nature and function of singing in men's everyday lives. The present article looks at how men create and regulate identity through singing and through the construction of personal narratives about their vocal behaviour. Extensive, informal, vocal-history interviews were carried out with eigh…
Nonverbal behaviours in popular music performance
The aim of this study was to investigate performer nonverbal behaviour in popular music performance in order to understand the use and functions of gestures, postures, and facial expression. To this end, the study begins by reviewing relevant psychological and sociological research including Ekman and Friesen and Argyle's categorisations of nonverbal behaviour. Drawing on these specific categories, functions of nonverbal behaviours in popular mus…
A British Academician
This short piece is a tribute to Professor John Sloboda to celebrate his election to the British Academy. The British Academy was founded in 1902 and is a self-governing fellowship of scholars, elected for their distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities and social sciences. During the ten years of our working collaboration, I learned much from John. I learned about writing; John's …
Effects of group singing and performance for marginalized and middle-class singers
In western society music performance is generally considered from the perspective of the elite performer, and the performance literature within the psychology of music has been representative of this preoccupation. But, in spite of much attention being directed to the 'how' of creating exceptional performances, little attention has been given to the 'why' of performance. Results of an investigation with members of a choir for homeless men indicat…
A Case-Study on the Effects of the Menstrual Cycle and the Use of a Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill on the Performance of a Western Classical Singer
This case study explores the objective and psychologically perceived effects of the menstrual cycle and the use of a combined oral contraceptive pill on the singing performance of a western classical female singer. Objective measures of vocal parameters and hormonal concentrations were assessed during her natural menstrual cycle and during the use of an oral contraceptive pill. A diary was kept throughout the six months duration of the study and …
The Activity and Artistry of Solo Vocal Performance
This paper draws on data collected from four professional solo classical singers as they prepared and performed the same piece, each working with the same accompanist. It examines their thoughts and feelings — inner mental states — as recalled and expressed in interview, and their perceptible outer states as observed in their physical behaviours. Data were collected from both talk-aloud reflections on the activities of practice, rehearsal and per…
From “This F***ing life” to “that's better” ... in four minutes
This article presents the findings of a preliminary interdisciplinary research project instigated by a group of three music therapists, a music psychologist and a psychiatrist. The group shared a professional and academic interest in music therapy's seeming ability to help patients experiencing severe affect dysregulation as a result of psychotic states to effectively modulate affect in a creative way within a surprisingly short time-span.The stu…
Meeting in music
This paper reports on practitioner research being undertaken at the University of Western Australia in which singing is being used for its health and well-being potential with a range of community groups. The specific case reported here is a choir established for a not-for-profit organization, The People Who Care, who offer support for frail, aged people and those with disabilities. The organization approached the university to develop a choir su…
Investigating group singing activity with people with dementia and their caregivers
The current study investigated the results of a 6-week singing program targeted for older individuals with dementia and their caregivers. Participants were from: a) a residential care unit within a retirement village with dementia clients and their site-based professional caregivers (mainly occupational therapists, but some care assistants); and b) a drop-in program organized by a dementia trust for clients living in the community, in which both …
Introducing the Issue of Performativity in Music
Older people’s motivations for participating in community singing in Australia
The aim of this project was to investigate the motivations of older people who regularly attend community singing groups in Australia. Four focus group interviews were conducted with 64 participants belonging to three community singing groups. Participants explained their motivation to attend and sing with others in the groups. A total of eight motivating factors were identified via an inductive thematic analysis, including (1) the importance of …
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