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A Suite In Six Attitudes: Subverting (And Succumbing To) The Textual Bias, Leanna Smithberger
A Suite In Six Attitudes: Subverting (And Succumbing To) The Textual Bias, Leanna Smithberger
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
This essay challenges textual dominance in academia by using music composition and performance as a method and representation of inquiry. I argue that this is a form of tactical resistance since it plays within the system, meeting requirements but challenging expectations. The resulting text from the project satisfies academic requirements for a written text, but subverts expectations as to the form that text should take. I provide the musical score and a discussion of the creation and performance of the composition to show how even when attempting to abandon textualism, we are still constrained by it. Despite this, I present …