Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start

This article sets out the case that there is a conflation of personal and situational liminality in the music industry. The response to this needs to include greater dynamism and development both of musical identities and innovations in the production and business of music. However, the confluence o...

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Published inMusicae scientiae Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 799 - 810
Main Author Beech, Nic
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2022
Subjects
situated learning
liminality
community
resilience
identity
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Summary:This article sets out the case that there is a conflation of personal and situational liminality in the music industry. The response to this needs to include greater dynamism and development both of musical identities and innovations in the production and business of music. However, the confluence of liminalities produces vulnerabilities and precarities which militate against learning and innovation and lean toward stasis. I offer an alternative way forward, which adopts a different conceptualization of vulnerability and discusses how a situated learning approach can be used to develop socially enabled resilience.
ISSN:1029-8649
2045-4147
DOI:10.1177/10298649221122173