Routledge Companion to Music Autoethnography and Reflexivity

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Music Autoethnography and Reflexivity</em> represents a substantial contribution to the field of writing reflexively about an individual’s practice within music studies. In seven sections 22 original chapters by a diverse set of contributors consider writing about personal activities from the points of view of performance composition musicology and pedagogy drawing on a range of traditions from Western art-music to popular music to ethnomusicology. A robust critical framework is presented with coverage of:</p><ul> <li>historical and critical perspectives</li> <li>different methodologies and their ascendancy within the academy</li> <li>leading debates issues and approaches</li> <li>future directions</li> </ul><p>The <i>Companion</i> cultivates new modes of engagement in music research enabling scholars and practitioners at all levels to identify and articulate their relationship to the wider sociocultural contexts in which they operate.</p>