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The Construction and Representation of Individual Artistry : Narratives of Diversity and Association (2019)
Thesis
Agrimbau, I. H. The Construction and Representation of Individual Artistry : Narratives of Diversity and Association. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The potential to express individual creativity through experience, and to create signification through narrative and self-awareness, is a human capacity. In this study, I am concerned with three key aspects of musical lives that instantiate the inter... Read More about The Construction and Representation of Individual Artistry : Narratives of Diversity and Association.

Excellence and inclusion in music education : working with Chagossian teenagers in an English secondary school (2018)
Thesis
Allen, P. R. Excellence and inclusion in music education : working with Chagossian teenagers in an English secondary school. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis develops from my experiences as a state secondary school music teacher in England, and from my work between 2009 and 2016 with teenagers from the forcibly exiled Chagossian community. Using field notes, diaries, documentary evidence, inte... Read More about Excellence and inclusion in music education : working with Chagossian teenagers in an English secondary school.

Pursuing Taiwanese-ness: the contemporary music practices of Taitung indigenous people (2018)
Thesis
Teoh, Y.-M. Pursuing Taiwanese-ness: the contemporary music practices of Taitung indigenous people. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research is an ethnography exploring the contemporary music practices of the indigenous people of Taitung, a southeastern county in Taiwan. Indigenous people make up a large proportion of the population of Taitung, and their music has in recent... Read More about Pursuing Taiwanese-ness: the contemporary music practices of Taitung indigenous people.