Exploring an embodied musical habitus: Harnessing productive resistances in the performance of contemporary solo oboe repertoire

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This research explores the experience of ‘resistance’ in the performance of complex and experimental solo oboe repertoire. Resistance manifests in the performance projects discussed in this dissertation as a subjective sense that something is transgressive or incongruous with musical ideals; a feeling of contradiction between what I – the performer – am doing and what some subliminal part of me thinks I should be doing. The research focuses necessarily on the individual performative perspective and history: the insights of this specificity are central to understanding the in-the-moment embodied interactions between performer, instrument and score in which some characteristic of this relational experience causes resistance. I examine how resistance arises between the ways I play my instrument in the repertoire of this project and my standard practice ‘habitus’ – understood within Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological framework as my internalised and embodied technical and aesthetic ideals of oboe playing. This exploration of the subjective manifestation of resistance contributes to the wider understanding of performance processes that is the concern of practice research into embodied experience. Resistance is investigated here via five practice research projects designed to create situations in which to explore the nature, origins and impacts of performative experiences of friction or transgression. Crucially, the research shows that resistance is creatively productive: it often endures beyond the learning of the piece of music, and is a source of musical meaning in performance, informing an understanding of the work that feeds into performative affect. The research articulates a process of understanding the structures represented by a musical habitus, and their potential implications for the experience of performance; something that is applicable to a range of practices.

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Supervisors:	Laws, Catherine
Keywords:	habitus, oboe, contemporary music, solo oboe, aaron cassidy, alex harker, desmond clarke, stephen de filippo, mark andre, pierre bourdieu, field, capital, music, new music, resistance, performance studies, performance, oboe performance, music performance
Awarding institution:	University of York
Academic Units:	The University of York > School of Arts and Creative Technologies (York)
Academic unit:	Arts and Creative Technologies
Depositing User:	Niamh Dell
Date Deposited:	26 Jan 2024 14:22
Last Modified:	22 Mar 2024 12:40
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:34180

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