When words are not enough: Exploring music reception and autistic experience

Hassan, Nedim

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“…Consequently, decisions about what was the most important phenomena to observe and record changed over time. There were various findings that emerged from this project relating to aspects such as the importance of momentary instances of domestic musical performing for the articulation of self‐identity and personal memory (Hassan, ,b) as well as the value of music as a flexible resource for facilitating social connections between residents and support staff (Hassan, ). Aspects of those findings will be discussed here as a way to examine further the complexities of issues related to choice‐making.…”

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“…He had not learned how to indicate that he wanted to listen to music in the same way that he could express other preferences (for instance, if he wanted another drink of tea, he would bring his mug to support staff, often with a smile on his face). Instead, as has been examined in more depth in previous work, support staff gauged whether Andrew was enjoying listening to music by taking into account his body language, facial expressions, physical actions and movements (Hassan, ). Yet due to his lack of speech, there would have been occasions when Andrew would not have been able to adequately express his preferences regarding the music being played through the stereo system or television.…”

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‘Putting music on’: everyday leisure activities, choice‐making and person‐centred planning in a supported living scheme

Hassan

2016

Brit J Learn Disabil

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Accessible summary• Essential Lifestyle Plans are a good way for people with learning disabilities and their support workers to tell people about things they like to do, such as listening to music.• These plans also tell people about the things that they need, like what medicine they may need to take.• Sometimes it is not easy to put the things we like to do at home into these plans because there are lots of things we do every day.• People need to think carefully about how the things we choose to do at home can be put into Essential Lifestyle Plans that are written for us and with us. AbstractBackground: Person-centred planning, which commonly becomes formalised within services for people with learning disabilities through an Essential Lifestyle Plan (ELP), was intended to help place the choices of individuals at the forefront of service provision. However, beyond UK government policy rhetoric, scholars have raised issues regarding the capacity of person-centred planning to empower people with learning disabilities to make choices about various aspects of their lives. This article assesses these debates, paying attention to the relationship between ELPs and choices made in relation to leisure activities. Materials and Methods:To examine leisure activities and choice-making in depth, the article draws upon ethnographic research conducted with four adults living in a supported living scheme. It focuses upon their domestic musical activities, connecting data derived from participant observation with the contents of ELPs.Results:This study found that person-centred planning underplayed processes involved with articulations of musical choice and also the peculiarities of the settings in which choices were made. It also found that leisure preferences expressed in ELPs did not effectively convey the richness and sociocultural significance of everyday domestic musical activities within the supported living scheme.Conclusions:Person-centred planning should not be divorced from social context, relationships and differing degrees of dependency. Domestic leisure activities such ª

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‘Putting music on’: everyday leisure activities, choice‐making and person‐centred planning in a supported living scheme

Hassan

2016

Brit J Learn Disabil

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“…As Barz (1997) and Hastrup (1995) have suggested, fieldwork is a rich activity that involves sharing experiences with other people. Consequently, while field notes can jog memories, researchers should not be hesitant when trying to recount those memorable shared moments that weren't 'recorded' in field diaries or that were not easily translated into writing (see also Hassan, 2008a).…”

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'He'll Have To Go': Popular music and the Social Performing of Memory <br> doi:10.5429/2079-3871(2010)v1i1.4en

Hassan

2010

IASPM Journal

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Studies of music listening have often relied upon what people say and write about listening in order to discuss its significance to memory. While this approach has provided useful insights into connections between musical activity and memory, this article will make clear that such an approach often neglects what people do when listening and remembering. This account will present an ethnographic case study focusing on John, a 64 year old man who, on the surface, seems to have great difficulty with coherently elucidating his memories. However, it will be revealed that musical performing constitutes a valuable resource for John; enabling him to communicate his memories in ways that are powerfully affective and to construct a positive sense of self-identity. Thus, the article will provide an insight into the potential advantages of utilising ethnographic research to attend to performative elements of music-related remembering, but it will also explore some of the methodological difficulties that are involved with this approach.

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“…That is, they cannot adequately be articulated through other forms of communication such as verbal or written accounts. As with a previous article examining a different ethnographic case study (Hassan, 2008a), it is vital to stress here that what Penelope Gouk calls "embodied knowledge" -knowledge acquired and displayed through bodily actions -is equally deserving for scholarly attention as knowledge generated by cognitive means (Gouk, 2000, p. 22). Of course, the difficulty with translating this approach into academic praxis lies in the strong reliance researchers have upon inscribing their findings and this issue will be broached shortly.…”

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“He'll Have To Go”: Popular music and the Social Performing of Memory

Hassan¹

2011

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Studies of music listening have often relied upon what people say and write about listening in order to discuss its significance to memory. While this approach has provided useful insights into connections between musical activity and memory, this article will make clear that such an approach often neglects what people do when listening and remembering. This article will present an ethnographic case study focusing on John, a 64 year old man who, on the surface, seems to have great difficulty with coherently elucidating his memories. However, it will be revealed that musical performing constitutes a valuable resource for John; enabling him to communicate his memories in ways that are powerfully affective and to construct a positive sense of self-identity. Thus, the article will provide an insight into the potential advantages of utilising ethnographic research to attend to performative elements of music-related remembering, but it will also explore some of the methodological difficulties that are involved with this approach.

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When words are not enough: Exploring music reception and autistic experience

Cited by 3 publications

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‘Putting music on’: everyday leisure activities, choice‐making and person‐centred planning in a supported living scheme

‘Putting music on’: everyday leisure activities, choice‐making and person‐centred planning in a supported living scheme

'He'll Have To Go': Popular music and the Social Performing of Memory <br> doi:10.5429/2079-3871(2010)v1i1.4en

“He'll Have To Go”: Popular music and the Social Performing of Memory

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