Disability and Musicking
Resistance, Defiance, and Innovation
Will be published approx. on 5. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
979-8-216-36762-8 (ISBN)
Description
Musicking, Resistances and Disabilities sets to rework the social resources and social movements perceived in disability studies by challenging approaches wherein music is detached from the social relationships in which it is produced, transmitted, used, and judged. The authors contribute compelling insights of disabled musicking, balancing experience of time, engagement and experiential encounters with personal creativity, and temporal existence. Adopting a new turn in critical disability studies, this book asserts democratic, equitable, inclusive, accessible, emancipatory, and innovative practices in disabled musicking, and the creative and innovative experimentation in musicmaking practices that highlight a new sociocultural and performative paradigm for disabled musicking worldwide.
Reviews / Votes
"The authors and editors of this text consider the constructions of (dis)ability, inclusive curriculum design, and perspectives/approaches of disabled people in, through, and around music. In doing so, they demonstrate a "disabled turn" in music education scholarship. This turn is facilitated through the use of theoretical frames drawn from disability studies and related fields. The authors provide a mix of the empirical, theoretical, and practical and may well become a foundational text for its mix of contemporary disability theorization, attention to performativities, and expansive epistemological orientation in, through, and around music." * Jesse Rathgeber, University of Wisconsin-Madison *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
979-8-216-36762-8 (9798216367628)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Leon de Bruin is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Melbourne, Conservatorium of Music, and coordinator of the Master of Music-Performance Teaching degree program.
Anthea Skinner is an ethnomusicologist and a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.
Jane Southcott is a Professor, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.
Anthea Skinner is an ethnomusicologist and a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.
Jane Southcott is a Professor, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.
Content
Chapter 1: Musicking and Disability: Surveying the Landscape
Leon de Bruin, Anthea Skinner and Jane Southcott
Part 1: Evolving Practices and Movements
Chapter 2: Inclusive Music Practices for Students with a Disability: Feedback for Agency and Resilience in the Adaptive Music Bridging Program Ensemble
Anthea Skinner and Leon de Bruin
Chapter 3: Teaching, Learning, Unlearning: Working with Students and Performers with Disabilities in the Music Community
Diane Kolin
Chapter 4: Tralala Blip: Found Sound Manipulations, Beautiful from Devastations and a Not so Linear Story.
Randy Reimann
Chapter 5: Into the Limelight: Investigating an Emancipatory Practice of Co-facilitation in Inclusive Music Workshops
Una MacGlone
Chapter 6: Dreaming in Rubatic Time: An Embodied Resistance to Chrononormativity in Academia.
Skylar Cameron and Annika Williams
Part 2: Disabled Performatitivities
Chapter 7: My Eyes, My Voice, My Spirit, My Music
Guilhem "Pone" Gallart
Chapter 8: Conduit Bodies: Embodiments and Dialogues in Performative Disability
Melinda Smith, Alon Ilsar, Anthea Skinner, and Leon de Bruin
Chapter 9: Composing and Performing Disability
Lubet
Chapter 10: "With My Tribe": Autism, Neurodiversity, and the Recuperative Musical Life of Jennifer Msumba
Michael B. Bakan and Jennifer Msumba
Part 3: New Epistomologies in Disability Teaching
Chapter 11: Growing Pains and Ethical Dilemmas in Music and Autistic Co-Design Research
Vik J. Squires and Grace Thompson
Chapter 12: Nothing About Us Without Us in the Syllabus: Designing and Facilitating a Disability-Centered Music Education Course
adam patrick bell
Chapter 13: Approaches To Studio Music Teaching for Students with Disabilities: A Scoping Review of the Literature
Melissa Raine and Grace Thompson
Chapter 14: Not Inclusion Because Black Disabled Entertainers Have Always Been Here
Leroy Moore
Chapter 15 Toward an Anti-ableist Music Education: Reconsidering the Complex Politics of Inclusion
Tuulikki Laes
Chapter 16 Provocations and Horizons
Leon de Bruin, Anthea Skinner and Jane Southcott
About the Editors and Contributors
Leon de Bruin, Anthea Skinner and Jane Southcott
Part 1: Evolving Practices and Movements
Chapter 2: Inclusive Music Practices for Students with a Disability: Feedback for Agency and Resilience in the Adaptive Music Bridging Program Ensemble
Anthea Skinner and Leon de Bruin
Chapter 3: Teaching, Learning, Unlearning: Working with Students and Performers with Disabilities in the Music Community
Diane Kolin
Chapter 4: Tralala Blip: Found Sound Manipulations, Beautiful from Devastations and a Not so Linear Story.
Randy Reimann
Chapter 5: Into the Limelight: Investigating an Emancipatory Practice of Co-facilitation in Inclusive Music Workshops
Una MacGlone
Chapter 6: Dreaming in Rubatic Time: An Embodied Resistance to Chrononormativity in Academia.
Skylar Cameron and Annika Williams
Part 2: Disabled Performatitivities
Chapter 7: My Eyes, My Voice, My Spirit, My Music
Guilhem "Pone" Gallart
Chapter 8: Conduit Bodies: Embodiments and Dialogues in Performative Disability
Melinda Smith, Alon Ilsar, Anthea Skinner, and Leon de Bruin
Chapter 9: Composing and Performing Disability
Lubet
Chapter 10: "With My Tribe": Autism, Neurodiversity, and the Recuperative Musical Life of Jennifer Msumba
Michael B. Bakan and Jennifer Msumba
Part 3: New Epistomologies in Disability Teaching
Chapter 11: Growing Pains and Ethical Dilemmas in Music and Autistic Co-Design Research
Vik J. Squires and Grace Thompson
Chapter 12: Nothing About Us Without Us in the Syllabus: Designing and Facilitating a Disability-Centered Music Education Course
adam patrick bell
Chapter 13: Approaches To Studio Music Teaching for Students with Disabilities: A Scoping Review of the Literature
Melissa Raine and Grace Thompson
Chapter 14: Not Inclusion Because Black Disabled Entertainers Have Always Been Here
Leroy Moore
Chapter 15 Toward an Anti-ableist Music Education: Reconsidering the Complex Politics of Inclusion
Tuulikki Laes
Chapter 16 Provocations and Horizons
Leon de Bruin, Anthea Skinner and Jane Southcott
About the Editors and Contributors