Music composition as arts-based educational research & performative Inquiry in the creation of nostos: a journey of others

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dc.contributor.authorZALIS, ZANE
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeCarrabré, T. Patrick (Music)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeHoneyford, Michelle (Education)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeAndrews, Bernard (University of Ottawa)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorMorin, Francine (Education)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-01T19:14:55Z
dc.date.available2021-04-01T19:14:55Z
dc.date.copyright2021-03-26
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.date.submitted2021-03-26T23:50:02Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineEducationen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)en_US
dc.description.abstractMusic education and education through music are critical in addressing understandings of the human condition and learning. Musical expression connotes felt knowing and experiencing that reveal self in the confrontation of other. Using arts-based educational research (ABER), I establish cognition as a gestalt entanglement of reason and emotion, elevating the role of music in education. My research unfolds analytically and creatively though a constellation of inquiries intertwined thematically. I first engage in a theoretical inquiry of my experience as a composer-educator-researcher, working in music education and community as a composer and producer. Herein, the principles of phenomenology (Heidegger, 1949; Levinas, 1969; Merleau-Ponty, 2012), hermeneutics (Gadamer, 2013), gestalt theory (von Ehrenfels, 1988; Werthheimer, 1944) are explored and supported by neuroscience (Scherer, 2013). Second, I conduct a systematic mapping review, scoping the literature targeting music composition (music and words) as an act of performative inquiry (PI). A void in the literature was found that addresses music education, composition, PI, or performativity as a phenomenon of doing and experience or enactment. The outcome calls for further research and development of creative practices in music education which are performative, intellectually disruptive, aesthetic, and generative. My central inquiry augments understandings of human experience employing a genre of ABER—music composition as PI. The outcome is an original composition—Nostos: A Journey of Others, consisting of a 186-page orchestral/choral/soloist score (music and lyrics) exploring notions of otherness, destructive discrimination, and hope for a humane world. Finally, I present an auto-ethnographic account of Nostos as PI that is an irreducible first-person perspectival reading of composing as PI and in-depth account of my creative process. The unique perspective of me as researcher/observer provides insights that invites readers to walk a vicarious path. In conclusion, I posit becoming a person in a transcultural world of difference and différance (Derrida, 1995) recognizes knowledge of the particularity of a person as much more than a handmaiden for generalizing people, for its constitution is of the universal. The phenomenology of our actions as persons being and becoming brilliantly corresponds and relates to the phenomenology of music composition as PI.en_US
dc.description.noteMay 2021en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/35392
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectMusic compositionen_US
dc.subjectArts-based educational researchen_US
dc.subjectArts-based researchen_US
dc.subjectPhenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectCritical arts pedagogyen_US
dc.subjectCritical pedagogyen_US
dc.subjectMusicen_US
dc.subjectLyricsen_US
dc.subjectEmpathyen_US
dc.subjectCognitionen_US
dc.subjectEntangled cognitionen_US
dc.subjectTransformative educationen_US
dc.subjectAffecten_US
dc.subjectEmotionen_US
dc.subjectLearning and understandingen_US
dc.subjectKnowledge generationen_US
dc.subjectHuman conditionen_US
dc.subjectOther and othernessen_US
dc.subjectGestalt theoryen_US
dc.subjectSocial justiceen_US
dc.subjectTranscultural experience and differenceen_US
dc.subjectHuman rightsen_US
dc.subjectSymphony orchestraen_US
dc.subjectChoiren_US
dc.subjectPerformance and identityen_US
dc.subjectAutoethnographyen_US
dc.subjectSystematic mapping reviewen_US
dc.subjectNostos: a journey of othersen_US
dc.subjectCreativityen_US
dc.subjectPerformative inquiryen_US
dc.subjectArtistic inquiryen_US
dc.subjectComposing music and wordsen_US
dc.subjectArtistic intuitionen_US
dc.subjectMusic Performance and inquiryen_US
dc.subjectCognition and emotionen_US
dc.subjectCurriculumen_US
dc.subjectTeaching and learningen_US
dc.subjectAesthetic experienceen_US
dc.subjectHolistic learningen_US
dc.subjectChoralen_US
dc.subjectPerformativityen_US
dc.subjectImmigrationen_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.subjectDiscriminationen_US
dc.subjectNeuroscienceen_US
dc.subjectEthicsen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectMusic educationen_US
dc.subjectHermeneuticsen_US
dc.subjectTransformative learningen_US
dc.subjectAesthetic encounteren_US
dc.subjectMusic composition as performative inquiryen_US
dc.subjectNeuroscienceen_US
dc.subjectEthicsen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectReasonen_US
dc.titleMusic composition as arts-based educational research & performative Inquiry in the creation of nostos: a journey of othersen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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