ABSTRACT

Background: This paper draws on a longitudinal ethnographic study of music-making with “post-verbal” people: those with stroke, learning difficulties, acquired brain injury, dementias or autism.

Methods: Using embedded observation, arts workshops, interviews with families and carers and focus groups with Music Leaders, the project traced how inclusive music-making happens with “post-verbal” people. It used post-human theory to illuminate and explore processes and benefits.

Results: This paper fuses the practical and theoretical aspects of making music with post-verbal people, to understand both how it happens, and, what it signifies. It shows how post-verbal people use music to communicate and demonstrate their capacities, and analyses how those working with them use music to foster a sense of inclusion and belonging.

Conclusions: By writing in collaboration across academia and community music practice the paper makes new and important contributions to both post-human thinking and capacities in learning, arts and health.

摘要

背景：本文借鉴了对“后语言”人群进行音乐制作的纵向民族志研究：中风、学习困难、获得性脑损伤、痴呆或自闭症的人群。

方法：通过嵌入式观察、艺术工作坊、对家庭和照顾者的采访以及与音乐领袖的焦点小组，该项目追踪了“后语言”人群如何进行包容性音乐制作。它使用后人类理论来阐明和探索过程和好处。

结果：本文融合了后语言人群制作音乐的实践和理论方面，以了解它是如何发生的，以及它的含义。它展示了后语言的人们如何使用音乐来交流和展示他们的能力，并分析了与他们一起工作的人如何使用音乐来培养包容感和归属感。

结论：通过跨学术界和社区音乐实践的合作写作，这篇论文对后人类思维和学习、艺术和健康方面的能力做出了新的重要贡献。