Embodiment, Relationality and Epistemics: Observations from Alexander Technique Training in Music Master Classes
Dados Bibliográficos
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AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | University of York, UK |
ANO | 2021 |
TIPO | Artigo |
PERIÓDICO | Sociology |
ISSN | 0038-0385 |
E-ISSN | 1469-8684 |
EDITORA | SAGE Publications |
DOI | 10.1177/00380385211007761 |
ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
Following Shilling's arguments on body pedagogics in sociology, we show how the negotiation of epistemic concerns is central to our understanding of practices of embodied interaction. Using conversation analytic methods, we examine audio and visual data from recordings of tuition in the Alexander Technique to accomplished amateur musicians. Our analysis builds on previous research on the body in pedagogic contexts, and focuses on embodied and discourse practices through which imperceptible changes to the body are warranted, the management of recruitment and agreement to embodied change, and the use of embodied mimicry. We position our approach as a rapprochement between the concerns of the sociology of the body and interactional studies of embodied action.