Grandmamma, what great ears you have! (Cross-generational musical interaction and the discovery of silence)

Abstract

An autoethnographic account is given in order to depict the building of the author's musical subjectivity through the specific modes of cross-generational and peer-to-peer interaction involving material and emotional investments, discursive constraints, and transgressions. The event of discovering the “sound of silence” is brought in contrast to the more encoded experiences of classical music, especially operatic. Emotionally charged musical events and rituals are revisited (narrated) together with accounts of transgressing the boundaries of inherited musical environments and learned patterns of musical appreciation.

Citation

Puzar, A. (2010), "Grandmamma, what great ears you have! (Cross-generational musical interaction and the discovery of silence)", Denzin, N.K. (Ed.) Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 35), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 243-269. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2010)0000035017