Community musicking and musical cognition among adungu music communities of the Acholi people from Awach, Gulu district, Northern Uganda

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Research Studies in Music Education Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI:10.1177/1321103x241261564

James Isabirye

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Abstract

This ethnographic inquiry investigated the nature of musical cognition that engagements in the Ugandan Acholi people’s adungu music culture engender, what can be understood about musical cognition in nonwesternized oral community music-making experiences, and how this might inform school music education theory and practice. Schooling in Uganda mostly upholds colonial epistemes that separate cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains, and position the arts and culture at the periphery of school experiences. Through a thematic analysis of data from interviews, focus group discussions, and observations of Anyim Lac troupe music community engagements, this study found that sociomusical experiences engender musical cognition where the musical spirit, mind, body, and environment interactions birth musical understanding. Musical cognition was understood as a holistic process of reflecting, creating, recreating, and acting emotionally where these musical spirit, mind, body, and environment interactions are shaped by culture. Since humans perceive, perform, and learn music as the embodiment of the interaction between musical spirit, mind, body, and environment, educators might need to create contexts where learners engage in learning experiences in ways that embed awareness of the intertwined nature of musical spirit, mind, body, and environment in those meaning-making processes.

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乌干达北部古卢区阿瓦赫阿乔利人阿东古音乐社区的社区音乐和音乐认知

这项人种学调查研究了参与乌干达阿乔利人的阿敦古音乐文化所产生的音乐认知的性质，在非西化的口头社区音乐创作经验中对音乐认知的理解，以及如何为学校音乐教育理论和实践提供信息。乌干达的学校教育大多坚持殖民主义的认识论，将认知、情感和心理运动领域分开，将艺术和文化置于学校体验的边缘。本研究通过对访谈、焦点小组讨论以及对 Anyim Lac 剧团音乐社区活动的观察所获得的数据进行主题分析，发现社会音乐体验产生了音乐认知，在音乐精神、心灵、身体和环境的互动中产生了对音乐的理解。音乐认知被理解为一个反映、创造、再创造和情感行动的整体过程，而这些音乐精神、心灵、身体和环境的互动是由文化塑造的。由于人类感知、表演和学习音乐是音乐精神、心灵、身体和环境之间互动的体现，因此教育者可能需要创造情境，让学习者在参与学习体验的过程中，将对音乐精神、心灵、身体和环境之间相互交织的性质的认识嵌入这些意义生成过程中。

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期刊介绍： Research Studies in Music Education is an internationally peer-reviewed journal that promotes the dissemination and discussion of high quality research in music and music education. The journal encourages the interrogation and development of a range of research methodologies and their application to diverse topics in music education theory and practice. The journal covers a wide range of topics across all areas of music education, and a separate "Perspectives in Music Education Research" section provides a forum for researchers to discuss topics of special interest and to debate key issues in the profession.