B5 Educational Gestures in School, Family, Youth Culture, and Media
Sub-project: Youth culture
TEAM:
Gerald Blaschke
Freie Universität Berlin
Arbeitsbereich Anthropologie und Erziehung
Arnimallee 11
D-14195 Berlin
phone: +49 (0)30 838-55851
fax: +49 (0)30 838-56698
email: gerald.blaschke (at) fu-berlin.de
Dr. Ruprecht Mattig
Kyoto University, JAPAN
(assoziiert)
email: ruprechtmattig (at) googlemail.com
OUTLINE
Fourth project phase (2008-2010):
Case studies on break and street dance conducted over the previous phase allowed us to identify the important role played by physical practices in the social interaction and conveyance of knowledge in youth culture. In order to review and differentiate these correlations, we will analyze gestures pertaining to pop and rock culture. Rock and pop music plays a pivotal role in socializing young people. Past studies in this field, however, concentrated on the symbolic content of lyrics, media representations, and music videos. Concerts have been mostly neglected in these analyses. Proceeding from the ritual and performative dimension of rock and pop concerts, our project will analyze the gestural interactions between spectators and musicians as well as within bands. We aim to investigate the nature of the mimetic quotations between audience and musicians, how they refer to each other gesturally, and how gestures or typical poses circulate between the two groups. From a educational perspective, this aspect of rock and pop culture is significant because musicians and spectators implicitly rehearse social behaviour. Concerts can thus trigger meaningful educational processes. The (practical) knowledge that they acquire in the process is largely conveyed through gesture. This gives rise to the question of how gestures are authorized, become established, and what effects they have.
We will rely on video footage and participatory observations of rock and pop concerts and will conduct narrative and question-based interviews and group discussions with dedicated young fans, band members, and musicians from the pop and rock scene.
The following questions will guide our research:
ARCHIVE
The Emergence of Learning Cultures through Rituals and Ritualization. (2005-2007)
>> Former Abstract
The Emergence of the Social in Rituals and Ritualizations. (1999-2004)
>> Former Abstract
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TEAM:
Gerald Blaschke
Freie Universität Berlin
Arbeitsbereich Anthropologie und Erziehung
Arnimallee 11
D-14195 Berlin
phone: +49 (0)30 838-55851
fax: +49 (0)30 838-56698
email: gerald.blaschke (at) fu-berlin.de
Dr. Ruprecht Mattig
Kyoto University, JAPAN
(assoziiert)
email: ruprechtmattig (at) googlemail.com
OUTLINE
Fourth project phase (2008-2010):
Case studies on break and street dance conducted over the previous phase allowed us to identify the important role played by physical practices in the social interaction and conveyance of knowledge in youth culture. In order to review and differentiate these correlations, we will analyze gestures pertaining to pop and rock culture. Rock and pop music plays a pivotal role in socializing young people. Past studies in this field, however, concentrated on the symbolic content of lyrics, media representations, and music videos. Concerts have been mostly neglected in these analyses. Proceeding from the ritual and performative dimension of rock and pop concerts, our project will analyze the gestural interactions between spectators and musicians as well as within bands. We aim to investigate the nature of the mimetic quotations between audience and musicians, how they refer to each other gesturally, and how gestures or typical poses circulate between the two groups. From a educational perspective, this aspect of rock and pop culture is significant because musicians and spectators implicitly rehearse social behaviour. Concerts can thus trigger meaningful educational processes. The (practical) knowledge that they acquire in the process is largely conveyed through gesture. This gives rise to the question of how gestures are authorized, become established, and what effects they have.
We will rely on video footage and participatory observations of rock and pop concerts and will conduct narrative and question-based interviews and group discussions with dedicated young fans, band members, and musicians from the pop and rock scene.
The following questions will guide our research:
- What are the functions of gestures within the dynamic of the chosen performances? How are these gestures performed?
- To what extent do gestures at rock and pop concerts stimulate actions by the fans and the youthful bands and musicians? To what extent do mimetic references to gestures trigger specific educational experiences and rehearse social manners of behaviour?
- In what ways do gestures have to be performed by participants to achieve recognition? To what extent does the field of youth culture center on the acquisition and habitualization of gestural knowledge: a form of knowledge of the meanings and use of gestures for recognizing and positioning oneself and each other in social contexts?
- As a direct result of these questions, we wish to investigate to what extent the educational potential of gestures is tied to the way in which they are performed.
ARCHIVE
The Emergence of Learning Cultures through Rituals and Ritualization. (2005-2007)
>> Former Abstract
The Emergence of the Social in Rituals and Ritualizations. (1999-2004)
>> Former Abstract
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