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| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 199 - 215 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Popular Music |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
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'Get back to where you once belonged!' The positive creative impact of a refresher course for 'baby-boomer' rock musicians. / O'Shea, Helen Fleur.
In: Popular Music, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2012, p. 199 - 215.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Get back to where you once belonged!' The positive creative impact of a refresher course for 'baby-boomer' rock musicians
AU - O'Shea, Helen Fleur
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This article reports on a study of participants in a Weekend Warriors Program for lapsed rock musicians in Melbourne, Australia. It observes musicians over a six-week period that included a jam session, coaching sessions and a gig (concert). It examines the learning pathways of participants and their goals and experiences alongside those of the programme organisers within the comparative context of music learning practices among young and older musicians and in the light of academic research into the midlife ageing process. A question that arises from the data is the extent to which the experience and actions of middle-aged women musicians coincides with the literature on gender in youth rock music scenes and the literature on music, ageing and gender. The article concludes that the Weekend Warriors Program draws on the learning practices that the musicians involved had adopted in their youth and which act as a catalyst for their further musical and social participation and self-directed group learning. Age appeared to create no barrier to their enjoyment or their achievements; indeed in many ways it seemed to make them less inhibited and self-conscious in realising individual objectives that were further encouraged by working within a supportive if loosely bonded group.
AB - This article reports on a study of participants in a Weekend Warriors Program for lapsed rock musicians in Melbourne, Australia. It observes musicians over a six-week period that included a jam session, coaching sessions and a gig (concert). It examines the learning pathways of participants and their goals and experiences alongside those of the programme organisers within the comparative context of music learning practices among young and older musicians and in the light of academic research into the midlife ageing process. A question that arises from the data is the extent to which the experience and actions of middle-aged women musicians coincides with the literature on gender in youth rock music scenes and the literature on music, ageing and gender. The article concludes that the Weekend Warriors Program draws on the learning practices that the musicians involved had adopted in their youth and which act as a catalyst for their further musical and social participation and self-directed group learning. Age appeared to create no barrier to their enjoyment or their achievements; indeed in many ways it seemed to make them less inhibited and self-conscious in realising individual objectives that were further encouraged by working within a supportive if loosely bonded group.
UR - http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/10.1017/S0261143012000025
U2 - 10.1017/S0261143012000025
DO - 10.1017/S0261143012000025
M3 - Article
VL - 31
SP - 199
EP - 215
JO - Popular Music
JF - Popular Music
SN - 0261-1430
IS - 2
ER -