Abstract
Mathew and Me is a musical performance autoethnography that explores embodied experiences of same-sex attraction between men within heteronormative sport cultures. The performance comprises a layering of original songs, performance poetry, and personal narrative. Songwriting is used as a critical arts-based methodology to discover, interrogate, and communicate fragmentary, sensory, and embodied remembrances of lived experience. Alongside a textual representation of the performance, reflections are offered on the two methodological issues: first, the challenges of sharing music and songs within conventional academic publication and, second, the possibilities and nuances of songwriting as a methodology for critical qualitative inquiry.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1095-1101 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Qualitative Inquiry |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 8-9 |
| Early online date | 9 Dec 2020 |
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| Publication status | Published - 9 Dec 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- critical arts-based research
- music
- authethography
- same-sex attraction
- songwriting