Choosing to play: Adolescent girls and informal music learning.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780494214206
Description: In an attempt to explore the relatively under-researched area of adolescent girls and informal music learning, the author conducted 6 in-depth qualitative interviews with middle-class adolescent girl popular musicians between the ages of 12 and 20 in the Greater Toronto Area in March and April, 2006. The study generated data on the informal learning practices, strategies, tools, and techniques used by participants in order to further their self-directed individual and collective informal music learning, as well as data on early influences on musical participation, the role of teachers and mentors, and constraints to participation. The study's findings suggested that positive early musical enculturation, material and social access, self-perceived effective paid and unpaid teachers/mentors, and supportive peer networks all played a role in helping girls develop their self-directed musical practice. Additionally, participants created dynamic communities of practice, which served as fertile sites for collective informal learning.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1193.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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