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Discourse Analysis As Potential For Re-Visioning Music Education, Brent C. Talbot
Discourse Analysis As Potential For Re-Visioning Music Education, Brent C. Talbot
Sunderman Conservatory of Music Faculty Publications
Discourse analysis holds great potential for re-visioning the field of music education. This paper explores works from Foucault, Blommaert, Scollon and Scollon, as well as others, to suggest a theoretical and methodological approach to analyzing discourse in settings of music transmission that takes into consideration who we are, what we do, and how we do it. Discourse is defined in this paper as meaningful, mediated language-in-place. By analyzing acts of speech as well as cultural objects (such as instruments, mallets, and bows) and concepts (such as a conducting gestures or solfege syllables) used as mediational means in situ, we can …