Using musical agency as a lens: Researching music education from the angle of experience

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In this article, the author suggests a route for music education research in which the notion of musical agency is proposed as one possible lens for investigating music education practices from the angle of the learner’s experience. A review is made of how the notion of musical agency is used within music education and related fields. Moreover, the phenomenon is described as found within the sociology of music and even more particularly in the works of Small (1998), DeNora (2000), and Batt-Rawden and DeNora (2005). Next, the different aspects of musical agency as found within these works are categorized and explained in more detail. Finally, this sociologically-inspired understanding of musical agency is visualized as a lens and proposed as a tool for ethnographically-inspired music education research.

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