GEMS (Gender, Education, Music, And Society)
Volume
6, Number 3, November 2013
Snapshot
Reflections:
Targeting Young
Boys Singing Girls’ Songs In School
Dr. Miroslav Pavle Manovski
Abstract: Phillip Brett and
Elizabeth Wood (2006) note that sexuality, like musicality, is embedded in an
individual sense of self. What if those unique or complex notions of our
evolving self––including social identifiers like gender––fluidly transcend
cultural expectations in educational contexts and beyond? In this study, I will
share and reflect upon historical shards of my experience becoming a solo
singer and musician in middle school. These events took place in a suburb of
Detroit, Michigan in the late 1980s during my seventh and eighth grade years.
Please join me in this arts-based work, as I revisit two live snapshot
recordings of performances from that time, including curated personal
artifacts/journals, and other relevant or intersecting works woven within a
process that incorporated member checking with my then music teacher and those
stakeholders who shared a part of constructing my world.
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