Thursday, October 31, 2013

Dr. Miroslav Pavle Manovski. (2013, November). Snapshot Reflections: Targeting Young Boys Singing Girls’ Songs In School.





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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