Full Description
This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to age as decline. It contributes to the development of qualitative research methodologies by utilizing and reflecting on methods for studying music, memory, and ageing across diverse and interconnected contexts. Using the notion of inheritance to trouble its core themes of music, memory, ageing, and methodology, it examines different ways in which the concept of inheritance is understood but also how it commonly refers to the practice of passing on, and the connections this establishes across time and space. It confronts the ageist discourses that associate popular music predominantly with youth and that focus narrowly, and almost exclusively, on music's therapeutic function for older adults. By presenting research which examines various intersections of music and ageing outside of a therapeutic context or framework, the book brings a much-needed intervention.
Contents
Introduction
Line Grenier, University of Montréal, Canada, Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool, UK, and Ros Jennings, University of Gloucestershire, UK
1. Reflections on Women and Musical Inheritances: Exploring the Musical Threads of Memory and Emotion
Ros Jennings, University of Gloucestershire, UK
2. Inheritance Tracks, Shared Memories, and Collective Self-TherapyAndy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia
3. Bordering Musical Inheritances
Helmi Järviluoma, Elina Hytönen-Ng, and Sonja Pöllänen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
4. Storytelling and Disrupting Borders: A Sicilian Workshop
Abigail Gardner, University of Gloucestershire, UK
5. Songs That Matter: Assessing through Trinidadian Storytellings the Power of Music, Memory, Age and Aging
Jocelyne Guilbault, University of California, Berkeley, USA
6. Collective Music Listening, Reminiscence, and the Tensions of Ageing: Lessons from two Workshops with Older Adults in Liverpool
Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool, UK, Lisa Shaw, University of Liverpool, UK, and Jacqueline Waldock, University of Liverpool, UK
7. Journeys of Attachments, Trajectories of (Mis)fitting: Musicking in Deaf Communities in Montreal
Line Grenier, University of Montréal, Canada, and Véro Leduc, University of Montréal, Canada
8. Sharing and Reflecting on Inheritance Tracks: Some Afterthoughts
Murray Forman, Northeastern University, USA
Notes on Contributors
Index
