Shifting from offline to online collaborative music-making, teaching and learning

Perceptions of Ethno artistic mentors

Bibliographic Data

ID5769445
AuthorsStephen J Gibson (0000-0003-3098-3231, York St John University, corresponding author), Sarah-Jane Gibson (York St John University)
Year2021
Volume23
Issue2
Pages151-166
Publication date2021-03-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMusic Education Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-3808 • E-ISSN: 1469-9893
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14613808.2021.1904865
OpenAlexW3144778796
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited22

Turino's ([2008]. Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.) distinctions between live and recorded fields can act as an effective framework for furthering academic understandings of how music teaching and learning has been impacted by the shift to online musical practice due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. This study investigates the effect this has had on Ethno World, JM-International's programme for folk, world and traditional music. They support youth folk music gatherings in over 23 countries and responded to the restrictions by devising 'The Hope sessions', online tune learning workshops, and the 'Exchange sessions', online folk music collaborations. This research is a hybrid ethnographic investigation of these two programmes. Hybrid ethnography is situated in a digital and physical environment (Przbylski, [2021]. Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline and In Between. SAGE Publications.). Data was gathered through online participant observation and interviews with artistic mentors and co-ordinators of the online programmes. Findings reveal a tension between values of inclusivity and aesthetic quality suggesting artistic mentors have needed to adjust their goals, conceptions and roles within the musical practice. These findings provide timely insight into how pedagogical approaches change when they shift from an offline to online context

Online and offline · Participant observation · Diverse Music Education Insights · Music Therapy and Health · Neuroscience and Music Perception