Embodied Research Through Music Composition and Evocative Life-Writing

Disrupting Diaspora
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-39805-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 177 g

Reihe: Developing Traditions in Qualitative Inquiry

Embodied Research Through Music Composition and Evocative Life-Writing: Disrupting Diaspora examines how attendance to the lived experience of diaspora can impact our scholarly understanding of the term.

Through the entanglements between her life and practice as a music composer, British Iranian author Soosan Lolavar weaves together a uniquely embodied approach to academic discussions, enriched by both her personal narrative and music. This book powerfully argues for the unique contribution of ways of knowing that are palpably understood through the body. Lolavar scrutinises the ways that the metaphor of diaspora has left indelible marks on her life and work, exploring these through the narrative presented in this book and publically available recordings of her music. This process allows her to construct new theoretical conceptions of diaspora which bring nuance and detail to a concept used widely across the humanities and social sciences. Disrupting Diaspora presents a map for transdisciplinary work which triangulates artistic practice, theory and evocative life-writing in lively and reflexive ways. In so doing, it contributes to a growing field of embodied scholarly work.

This book is primarily written for an academic audience with interests in embodied research methods, diaspora studies, practice-as-research in general and creative research in music composition in particular. It will be suitable for students in the disciplines of music studies, music composition, sociology, communications, creative writing, anthropology and human geography.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lolavar, Soosan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Disrupting Agendas 2: Ways of Knowing 3: Double-Consciousness, Diaspora and Me 4: Diaspora, Wayfaring and Transport 5: Entangled Pathways

Über Autor(innen)

Soosan Lolavar is a musician, lecturer and researcher. She lives and works in London, UK, and her music has been performed across the world.