Musical Transformations: Collaborative music making with people of marginalised genders

这项研究探讨了合作音乐创作是如何被创造出来的，以及如何创造出关怀和集体抵抗的空间，挑战权力和性别不平等的制度。它在人类学、民族音乐学、流行音乐研究、性别研究和音乐部门政策制定和实践的交叉领域做出了贡献。作为一名音乐家、人类学家和音乐慈善机构的工作人员，我的身份使我能够将不同但相互联系的网站/人群聚集在一起：草根音乐慈善机构Girls Rock London（为女性、女孩、跨性别者和非双性恋者提供音乐创作机会）、酷儿女权主义乐队Glorybox，以及一系列音乐家和音乐组织者。我正在采取一种民族志方法：一种长期的定性方法，以研究参与者的观点为基础，包括我自己，作为伦敦女孩摇滚的受托人和Glorybox乐队成员。我的“实地工作”包括参加Glorybox的排练、演出和驻场，以及Girls Rock London的工作坊、活动和会议。我还将主持对Glorybox成员的采访；女孩摇滚伦敦项目的参与者、工作人员和志愿者；还有一群音乐家和音乐组织者。将自组织音乐制作与艺术、音乐教育、慈善和商业音乐部门进行对话，本研究旨在调查和加强这些部门与人类学之间的联系；支持和改进组织使用音乐来解决被边缘化性别的年轻人和成年人所经历的排斥问题的做法；理论和研究方面的实践和政策；并为基于边缘化性别人群的生活经历和观点的研究做出贡献。

This research explores how collaborative music making is created by, and can create, spaces of care and collective resistance that challenge systems of power and gender inequality. It offers a contribution at the intersection of anthropology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, gender studies, and music sector policymaking and practice. My position as a musician, anthropologist and worker at a music charity enables me to bring together different but connected sites/groups of people: grassroots music charity Girls Rock London (which provides music making opportunities for women, girls, and trans and non-binary people), queer-feminist band Glorybox, and a range of musicians and music organisers. I am taking an ethnographic approach: a long-term, qualitative method grounded in the perspectives of research participants, including myself, as a Girls Rock London trustee and Glorybox bandmember. My 'fieldwork' comprises participation in Glorybox rehearsals, performances and residencies, and Girls Rock London workshops, events and meetings. I will also lead interviews with Glorybox members; Girls Rock London project participants, staff and volunteers; and a range of musicians and music organisers. Placing self-organised music making in conversation with the arts, music education, charity and commercial music sectors, this research aims to investigate and strengthen connections between those sectors and anthropology; support and improve the practice of organisations using music to address exclusions experienced by young people and adults of marginalised genders; ground practice and policy in theory and research; and contribute to research that is grounded in the lived experiences and perspectives of people of marginalised genders.