1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Music, Autoethnography, and Reflexivity
INTRODUCTION
1. Music, autoethnography, and reflexivity: An introductory conversation
Peter Gouzouasis and Christopher Wiley
PART 1: INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE
2. Experiencing the Karnatic Violin: Knowing in the hands
Alice Barron
3. Performing intercultural music for flute and electronics: Reflections on heterotopian (s)p(l)ace
Jean Penny
4. A conductor’s autoethnography of interpretive process
Bede Williams
PART II: VOCAL PERFORMANCE
5. An autoethnographic approach to understanding early vocal recordings and late nineteenth-century singing treatises
Barbara Gentili
6. An autoethnography of performance in the vocal booth
Rod Davies
7. Semi-staging Written On Skin: An experiment in the “doubleness” of lived experience and unfolding performative invention
Benjamin Davis
8. A cautionary tale of the health and well-being of college music students
Matthew Yanko
PART III: COMPOSITION AND CREATIVE PRACTICE
9. Notes to self: How composers write about their music
Christopher Leedham and Martin Scheuregger
10. The “self” particle: A time traveller’s account of how one doctorate in music composition would have benefitted from a better awareness of autoethnography
Bartosz Szafranski
11. A performative autoethnography of the oratorios I Believe and Nostos: Composing music, words, and worlds
Zane Zalis
PART IV: PEDAGOGY
12. How did we learn to create this performance? A tutor models student reflective practice
Monica Esslin-Peard
13. An autoethnography of designing an undergraduate music module on Adele’s 25 album
Christopher Wiley
14. “Mind the gaps”: Exploring models for positioning the researcher in doctorates in music performance
Sarah Callis and Neil Heyde
15. A piano mismatch: Passion, dreams, and being a “good boy”
David Lines
PART V: CULTURAL AND CONTEXTUAL MUSIC STUDIES
16. Jammin’ “under one groove”: An autoethnographic steelband love story
Charissa Granger
17. An autoethnographic approach to linking performance, practice research, and historical research
Verica Grmuša
18. Thumbprints on the paintwork: On autoethnography and fandom in the music of Mark E. Smith and The Fall
Iain Findlay-Walsh
19. 1000 days project: An a/r/tographic inquiry of hospital music-making
Rosalind Hawley
PART VI: ART AS AUTOETHNOGRAPHY
20. Advocating a folkloristic disposition in the context of music pedagogy
Simon E. Poole
21. Twilight
Benjamin Bolden
PART VII: CODA: FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS
22. Autoethnography: A reflexive research process
Peter Gouzouasis
Biography
Peter Gouzouasis is a Professor of Music Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at The University of British Columbia, Canada.
Christopher Wiley is a Senior Lecturer in Music and Head of Music and Media at the University of Surrey, UK.






