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Arts Based Research

Music

Writing, research, and music education have much in common with music: To undertake qualitative research is to create an experience. 

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  • Music can help us access and shed light on parts of social experience that other textual or visual forms may fail to capture" (Leavy, 2009, p.106).

Musical Portraiture

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Website description: Part of the Performance by the violinist, vocalist, poet Terry Jenoure with the dancer Maria Mitchell in Pavia's festival: Jazz per Due 2009. The project is called What Is A Woman because it explores the deep meaning of being a daughter, a mother, a woman artist and performer through music, sounds, colors and signs. A story never ended that needs to be told..

Performance Collage

How can music communicate ideas about history?

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