ABSTRACT

Music is deeply entangled with human activity and can play various roles in our lives, also in the lives of children. A large part of children’s day-to-day life in Norway takes place within a school context. However, research on children’s musical lives within a primary school context is scarce, and there is little knowledge of how pupils engage and interact with music throughout their school day. Building on classroom observations of 4th graders in a Norwegian primary school, this article addresses the intra-actions of pupil(s) and music(s) at school from a posthuman and new materialist perspective. Through a diffractive reading of data and a ‘thinking with theory’ approach, we investigate how pupils and music intra-act within material-discursive school practices. Our results show that the intra-actions of music(s) and pupil(s) are connected to the norms and rules regulating the classroom and that these understandings have material effects.

摘要

音乐与人类活动息息相关，可以在我们的生活中扮演各种角色，在儿童的生活中也是如此。挪威儿童日常生活的很大一部分发生在学校环境中。然而，关于小学背景下儿童音乐生活的研究很少，而且对学生在整个上学期间如何参与音乐并与之互动知之甚少。基于对挪威小学四年级学生的课堂观察，本文从后人类和新唯物主义的角度探讨了学生和音乐在学校的内部行为。通过对数据的衍射阅读和“用理论思考”的方法，我们调查了学生和音乐在物质话语学校实践中的内在行为。