Disability and Musicking

Resistance, Defiance, and Innovation

Leon de Bruin, Jane Southcott, Anthea Skinner

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216258599
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music History & Criticism

Musicking, Resistances and Disabilities sets to rework the social resources and social movements perceived in disability studies by challenging approaches wherein music is detached from the social relationships in which it is produced, transmitted, used, and judged. The authors contribute compelling insights of disabled musicking, balancing experience of time, engagement and experiential encounters with personal creativity, and temporal existence. Adopting a new turn in critical disability studies, this book asserts democratic, equitable, inclusive, accessible, emancipatory, and innovative practices in disabled musicking, and the creative and innovative experimentation in musicmaking practices that highlight a new sociocultural and performative paradigm for disabled musicking worldwide.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter 1: Musicking and Disability: Surveying the Landscape
• Part I: Evolving Practices and Movements
• Chapter 2: Inclusive Music Practices for Students with a Disability: Feedback for Agency and Resilience in the Adaptive Music Bridging Program Ensemble
• Chapter 3: Teaching, Learning, Unlearning: Working with Students and Performers with Disabilities in the Music Community
• Chapter 4: Tralala Blip: Found Sound Manipulations, Beauty from Devastations, a Not So Linear Story
• Chapter 5: Into the Limelight: Investigating an Emancipatory Practice of Co-facilitation in Inclusive Music Workshop
• Chapter 6: Dreaming in Rubatic Time: An Embodied Resistance to Chrononormativity in Academia
• Part II: Disabled Performativities
• Chapter 7: My Eyes, My Voice, My Spirit, My Music
• Chapter 8: Conduit Bodies: Embodiments and Dialogues in Performative Disability
• Chapter 9: Composing and Performing Disability
• Chapter 10: “With My Tribe”: Autism, Neurodiversity, and the Recuperative Musical Life of Jennifer Msumba
• Part III: New Epistemologies in Disability Teaching
• Chapter 11: Growing Pains and Ethical Dilemmas in Music and Autistic Co-Design Research
• Chapter 12: Nothing about Us without Us in the Syllabus: Designing and Facilitating a Disability-Centered Music Education Course
• Chapter 13: Approaches to Studio Music Teaching for Students with Disabilities: A Scoping Review of the Literature
• Chapter 14: Not Inclusion Because Black Disabled Entertainers Have Always Been Here
• Chapter 15: Toward an Anti-ableist Music Education: Reconsidering the Complex Politics of Inclusion
• Chapter 16: Provocations and Horizons
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Index