The aim of this study was to explore how South Korean immigrant mothers perceived and supported their children's musical activities and how acculturation might have affected these mothers' musical ...parenting. A qualitative case study was carried out for this inquiry and in-depth
interviews with thirteen Korean immigrant mothers provided rich data about their musical parenting. The interview data indicated that the immigrant mothers had a strong belief about their children's musical engagement and this belief led them to support their children as best as they
could even if it required a great amount of time and money. Also, it was clearly found that these immigrant mothers' musical parenting has been significantly affected by the acculturation process. They all agreed that their decisions on their children's musical participation would
have differed if they lived in Korea. Unlike native Korean mothers who showed a tendency to discontinue support for their children's musical activities when they reached upper elementary grades, the immigrant mothers were willing to support their children's musical participation
as long as possible. Various factors seemed to have influenced this decision, including a desire for lifelong music participation as a possible tool for college admissions.
While the benefits of music to people's mental health have long been recognized, the process of how it works requires further investigation. This paper is based on the results of a community-based ...music project offered to a group of mental health service users by a Hong Kong social service centre. A six-dimensional framework, which contains emotional, psychological, social, cognitive, behavioural and spiritual dimensions, is constructed for understanding how musical activities may produce benefits for mental health service users. Through conducting 23 interview sessions with the participants (N = 47) this study examines the processes of change within musical activities. The participants suffered from mental health problems including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Feedback was solicited from them by listening to their first-hand experiences as service users of the musical activities. Recorded interviews were transcribed and analysed to generate themes that correspond to the six dimensions the researchers proposed. This study shows that the clinical effects elicited by the musical activities described fit closely with the needs of mental health service users. Its findings suggest that community-based musical activities have clear potential for supporting mental health service users in recovery, which deserve further promotion.
Students embark upon their studies at the conservatory motivated to learn how to play a musical instrument. Nevertheless, they must attend Music Language classes from the first year, a subject that ...they usually find it unattractive and it makes them feel with anxiety.In this article we discuss a research carried out in a Professional Conservatory of Music with students in their first two years of elementary training. The goals in this research are to identify which aspects are a source of anxiety in these students and to analyse the usefulness of our educational proposals in order to reduce it. We have applied a qualitative research methodology which combines the characteristics of case study methods and classroom-based research.This research enables us to state that the implementation of flexible, dynamic and positive pedagogy, the improvement of study habits in our students, the family involvement, the care of relationships, the recognition of mistakes, accepting them as natural feature of the whole learning process, and the performing musical exhibitions in public on a regular basis reduce anxiety.
Los alumnos inician sus estudios de conservatorio motivados por aprender a tocar algún instrumento. No obstante, desde el primer curso se encuentran con que deben asistir también a clase de Lenguaje Musical, una asignatura que, con frecuencia, les resulta poco atractiva y les genera ansiedad. En este artículo presentamos una investigación realizada con alumnos de los dos primeros cursos de las enseñanzas elementales del Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Segovia. Los objetivos del estudio son identificar los aspectos que provocan ansiedad a los alumnos en dicha asignatura y analizar la utilidad de nuestras propuestas educativas para reducirla. Hemos aplicado una metodología cualitativa que combina características de los métodos de estudio de casos e investigación en el aula. La investigación presentada nos permite afirmar, entre sus conclusiones fundamentales, que la aplicación de una pedagogía flexible, dinámica y positiva, el cuidado de las relaciones, la implicación de las familias, la aceptación de los errores como elementos naturales de todo proceso de aprendizaje y la realización de interpretaciones musicales en público de forma habitual contribuyen a reducir la ansiedad.
During World War II, tens of thousands of people of different social backgrounds fled to the West from Estonia. There were approximately two hundred musicians among them, half of whom received asylum ...in Sweden. Some opera singers, conductors, and composers had built a successful career already before the war and were also known to a certain extent in the Nordic countries. While in Sweden, the musicians tried to get involved in the cultural life of the host society. They believed that this would ensure them an income, yet they felt an inner need to continue their careers as musicians and to preserve their professional identity. The aim of this article is to highlight the circumstances that either supported or hindered the integration of these highly-skilled refugees. The research is based on the manuscript memoirs of Juhan Aavik (1884-1982), an Estonian conductor and composer, who, before fleeing, occupied the leading position in Estonian music life.
The study examines relationships between flow experience in musical activities, life meaningfulness and subjective well-being. Life meaningfulness belongs to eudaimonic good life, subjective ...well-being belongs to hedonic good life and flow seems to be combination of both approaches. It is supposed that flow experience in musical activity and life meaningfulness should have positive impact on subjective well-being. The research sample consisted of 96 university music students (37 males, 59 females) from the Music and Dance Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. Dispositional Flow Scale-2, which measures nine dimension of flow, was used for measuring frequency of flow experience. Life Meaningfulness Scale, which measures three dimensions of life meaningfulness, was used for measuring meaningfulness of life. Positive and Negative Affect Schedule measured affective components of subjective well-being, and Satisfaction with Life Scale measured cognitive component of subjective well-being. Categorization revealed that the most favourite performing musical activities are creative musical activities, such as reproduction and production, during which music students relatively often experience flow. The results of correlation analysis showed that total scores of flow experience, life meaningfulness and components of subjective well-being, significantly correlate each other. Aspects of flow, clear goals and autotelic experience are positively related to cognitive and motivational dimension of life meaningfulness and also to positive affectivity. Loss of self-consciousness and autotelic experience are positively related to emotional dimension of life meaningfulness. Challenge-skill balance, action-awareness merging, clear goals, concentration on task at hand, sense of control and autotelic experience are negatively related to negative affectivity. Challenge-skill balance and autotelic experience are related to satisfaction with life. Correlation coeficients of these relations showed that flow experience is relatively equally associated with life meaningfulness and subjective well-being. It suggests that flow experience is partly hedonic and also eudaimonic concept. Next, all dimensions of life meaningfulness correlate positively with positive affectivity and satisfaction with life, and negatively with negative affectivity. Multiple regression analysis revealed that life meaningfulness significantly contributes to all components of subjective well-being, and experiencing flow significantly predicts only negative affectivity. Thus, life meaningfulness brings good feeling and creates in one's mind order just like flow does it on its own way and in shorter time period. Flow experience rather prevents experiencing unpleasant affects. Considering specific research sample, generalizations of the results are limited. This is quantitative research which does not enable to examine phenomenological nuances of flow experience that are usually examined. Qualitative research, but also personality characteristics, age of musicians and length of musical practise would give another view on examined relations. Despite some limitations, our results confirm theoretical assumptions and research studies. They refer to the function of flow experience in musical activity and especially to life meaningfulness as important factor of subjective well-being.
Leadership, as research area, has been more and more visible in the process of education, not excluding pre-school education, which is a relevant period for an individual, when foundation for his/her ...successful lifelong learning is laid. It is relevant to identify, which leadership qualities are characteristic of pre-primary children, how important they are and whether they may be developed during musical activities of pre-primary children. The article presents the theoretical-empirical model for leadership expression of pre-primary children through musical activities, which provides with a possibility of identifying features of leadership qualities and revealing trends in leadership expression among pre-primary children.
Concerted cultivation has been described as a common, urban middle-class practice concerning the enrollment of children in a variety of age-specific activities that may promote the learning of ...valuable life skills as well as the development of individual abilities (Lareau, 2003). Music is one such activity. This study investigated the relationship between children’s participation in organized musical activities and concerted cultivation in the discourses of parents, who took part in the MyPlace, MyMusic Research Project. This collaborative project investigated children’s home musical experiences in diverse countries. Although all interviewed parents were highly invested in their children’s organized and unstructured musical experiences, there was much variation in regard to beliefs, values, affordances, and opportunities. Global and local issues are discussed along with implications for future research.
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