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Performing Difference

Published:2023-08-16 Issue: Volume: Page:
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Container-title:The Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy
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Author:

Leske Ben¹,Bibb Jennifer¹,McFerran Katrina Skewes²

Affiliation:

1. Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne

2. Music, University of Melbourne

Abstract

Abstract This chapter explores the experiences of 10 members of the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Youth Chorus (the Youth Chorus), Australia’s first community choir for same sex attracted and gender diverse (SSAGD) young people. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) and the sociological framework of ‘music asylum’, this research describes how the youth chorus were offered a place of safety within the structure of the choir where being queer was the norm rather than the exception. Drawing on the theoretical focus of community music and community music therapy, this chapter analyses how the choir’s construction of difference was expressed musically and socially through performance. The research concludes that the choir provided its members with musical and extra-musical platforms to rehearse and publicly perform musical and social identities, depicting what it means to be different.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

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