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Enjoyment of Music by Non-Participants in School Music

Yackley, Aaron K
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu156217548202137

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Music.
The purpose of this study was to explore musical enjoyment of adolescents who had decided not to join middle school elective beginning music classes. Through a series of phenomenological interviews, participants described their experience with enjoyment of music, including what activities and conditions led to musical enjoyment, as well as how they felt during an enjoyable musical experience. The interviews were analyzed through a descriptive phenomenological framework that included developing textural (what) and structural (how) descriptions of the experience of musical enjoyment. Findings indicated that non-music students enjoyed a variety of musical activities, including listening to music, singing along to music, dancing to music, creating music, sharing music with friends, attending live concerts, and musical games or informal music learning. Their enjoyment was also predicated on the conditions that music matched their pre-established preferences, that music elicited situationally-preferred emotions, that music evoked fond memories, and that music focused their attention on the task or object they intended. During musical enjoyment, participants experienced their situationally-preferred emotions, a sense of focus, a feeling of ownership or relatedness toward the music, and a desire to continue participation in the musical activity that resulted in enjoyment. Implications for music education are discussed, including curricular changes to address the way that students not enrolled in music classes engage with and enjoy music.
Robert Gillespie (Advisor)
Julia Shaw (Committee Member)
Daryl Kinney (Committee Member)
207 p.
Fine Arts; Music; Music Education
music education; music; enjoyment; musical enjoyment; phenomenology; music enrollment; music engagement; flow

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  • Yackley, A. K. (2019). Enjoyment of Music by Non-Participants in School Music [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu156217548202137

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yackley, Aaron. Enjoyment of Music by Non-Participants in School Music. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu156217548202137.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yackley, Aaron. "Enjoyment of Music by Non-Participants in School Music." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu156217548202137

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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