Methodological Musings: Thinking with Narrative in Music Education Research

Introduction
Contents
Editor and Contributors
Theorizing Narrative
Addressing Narrative Methodologies in Music Education Research
	1 Introduction: Thinking Out Loud
	2 20 Years of Narrative Inquiry in Music Education
	3 Across, Between, and Beyond
		3.1 Across: Interdisciplinary Concepts of Narrative
		3.2 Between: Narrative as Interaction
		3.3 Beyond: Enhancing Narrative: Multimodality and Post Humanism
	4 Narrative and Arts (Education) Research
		4.1 Methodological Musings
	Notes
	References
A Member Worthy of Belonging: The Construction of the Self as Protagonist in Autobiographical Narrative
	1 Introduction
	2 Research Design & Methodology
	3 Theoretical Framework
		3.1 Analysis and a Second Line of Inquiry
	4 Findings
		4.1 Belonging as a Function of Music Performance Level
		4.2 Belonging Through Extra-Musical Means
		4.3 Belonging Contested and Denied
	5 Summary
	References
Mystery Tunes and the Stories They Inspire
	1 Narrative Possibilities in Choral Classrooms
	2 The Space Between Research and Practice
	3 Missing Voices
		3.1 The Evaded Curriculum and Musical Canons
	4 A Classroom Experiment
	5 Making Room for Stories
	References
Music and Belonging—Stories of the Lived Experience of Music in an Early Childhood Setting
	1 Introduction
	2 Theoretical Background and Research Aim
		2.1 The Story Place—Research Setting
		2.2 The Story Frame—Methodology and Research Design
		2.3 The Storyteller
		2.4 The Stories
		2.5 Lennie’s Fire Music
	3 Discussion
	4 Conclusion
	References
The Vast, Unfinished Plot: Excavating the Political Unconscious of Narrative Inquiry
	1 Imaginary—Symbolic—Real
	2 The Form of Ideology
	3 The Repression of History in Music Education Research
	4 Reconciling with Contradiction
	5 Allegory
	6 Conclusion
	References
Narrative Dialogues
Narratives on Amateur Singers: Dialogues About Voice Shame and Resilience
	1 Introduction
	2 The Theoretical Dialogue
		2.1 Dialogical and Narrative Inspirations
		2.2 Resilience and Rebellion
		2.3 Shame
	3 Narrative Analysis (on Analysis of Narratives)
		3.1 The Impulse
		3.2 Ivar
		3.3 Janne
	4 Continuing the Dialogue
		4.1 Juggling the Needs of Expression and Social Acceptance
		4.2 A Healthy Interstice
		4.3 Exposure and Aesthetics
		4.4 Children Carrying the Norm
		4.5 The Opposite of Shame in Music Education
	5 Final Remarks on Methodology
	References
‘Stories from a Bodyless Singer and a Voiceless Dancer’: Dialogical Musings Through Kaleidoscopic Perspectives of Difference and Sameness
	1 To the Reader
	2 Runa’s Entrance to Writing This Chapter
	3 Rose’s Entrance to This Chapter
	4 Dialoguing Through Kaleidoscopic Stories—A Coda to the Reader
	References
Interrogating the Myth that Sexism no Longer Exists in the Music Education Academy
	1 Methodological Positioning
	2 A Narrative on the Complexities of Agency
	3 A Narrative of Greater Self-Awareness
	4 Two Narratives of Re-Tooling Gender Roles
		4.1 Doll Parts: A Performer
		4.2 Silenced Bodies: An Academic
	5 A Narrative of the Feminization of Scholarship (a telehealth therapy appointment.)
	6 A Narrative of the Patriarchal Tendency Toward Self-Promotion
	7 Conclusion
	References
Performance Narratives
“To Me, Art is the Main Project, not a Tool”—Teaching Artists’ Aesthetic Musings on Global Science Opera
	1 Introduction
	2 What is GSO?
	3 Dramaturgy and Artistic Methodological Traits
	4 Design and Research Presentation
	5 Giedre: My GSO Story
	6 An Opera of Teaching Artists’ Lifeworlds and GSO
		6.1 Act 1: Overture: Art Teachers’ Approach Towards Science
	7 Giedre’s Reflections
		7.1 Act II: Conflict. Performative Aesthetics versus Scientific Content
	8 Giedre’s Reflections
		8.1 Act III: Reconciliation? Teaching Artists’ Reasoning for Prolonged Engagement with GSO
	9 Giedre’s Reflections
	10 Coda: Achieving Transdisciplinarity
	11 Final Note on Methodology
	References
The Silent Body
	1 Metaphors and Beliefs About AN
	2 The Anorexic Scream
	3 “Weighed and Found Too Light”—Narrating AN
	4 The Remembering Self
	5 The Right to Choose
	6 Anorexic and Weighed and Found Too Light
	7 The Wisdom of AN
	8 The Becoming of Songs and the Becoming of Me
	References
The Shadows of Bright Pink: An Unexpected Moment, Transversality, and Narrative Inquiry
	1 Introduction
	2 The Narrative: An Unexpected Moment
		2.1 The Meeting
		2.2 My Workspace
		2.3 Moving, Towards
		2.4 The Video
	3 A Framework of Inquiry
		3.1 Justification
	4 The Phenomenon of Inquiry
		4.1 Methods
		4.2 A Description of the Analysis and Interpretation Process
		4.3 The Analysis
		4.4 Positioning This Study in the Context of Pre-Existing Studies
	5 An Outlook, in Place of a Conclusion
	References
The Music of Narrative Inquiry: Characterizing, Representing, and Learning from Experiences of Experiences
	1 The Story Before the Story
		1.1 Experience
		1.2 Narrative
		1.3 Music
		1.4 Narrative Inquiry
	2 Story
		2.1 Music Thread of Experience
		2.2 Interweaving Music and Research Texts in Narrative Writing
	3 Story After the Story
	Appendix 1. Three Representative Pieces of Scholarship
	Appendix 2. Strategies, Purposes, and Examples Excerpted from the Representative Articles
	References
Soundtrack to Solitude: Performing the Sonic Self Through Musical Narrative Inquiry
	1 Introduction
	2 Playing the Part: Who Am I?
	3 Listening: Connections Through Musical Narrative Inquiry
	4 Improvisation 1: What Do I Sound like?
	5 Improvisation 2: Does Who I Am Matter for What I Sound like?
	6 Replaying: Does What I Sound like Matter for Who I Am?
	References
Tales from the Pub, the Records, and the Theatre: Using Narrative Inquiry to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in Music Education
	1 Introduction: Stories, Narratives, and Tales
	2 Agents and Agency
		2.1 Turning Narratives into Pedagogical Possibilities
	3 Gilad: From the Pub to the Conservatory
	4 Validation: Reframing What Counts as Musical Knowledge
	5 Exploration: Co-Creating a Rich Narrative and Aesthetic Expression
		5.1 Scene (Where? When?)
		5.2 Agent (Who?)
		5.3 Agency (How?)
		5.4 Act (What?)
		5.5 Purpose (Why?)
	6 Explication: Translating Experience into Pedagogy
	7 From Exploration to Explication
	8 Peleg: From My Parents’ Record Collection to Progressive Rock
	9 Arwa: Connecting Childhood Memories to the Classroom
	10 Discussion
		10.1 Narrative Epistemology
	References