In this chapter the notion of assemblage is put to work in order to understand how the early career researcher-musician-educator comes to be formed from the milieu. An analysis of the relationship between research as knowledge production and the artistic desire for aesthetics and affectivity is undertaken to trouble the boundaries that separate…

The residual meanings attached to the arts emerge through histories that have maintained disciplinary difference between dance, music, art, drama. This modernist persistence affects intellectual and corporeal innovation in school-based arts so how might a rearticulation of arts practices, as well as research and education procedures from the…

This work emerged while rehearsing Fauré's POÈME D'UN JOUR for voice and piano comprised of three mélodies. While rehearsing these myself, I was compelled to create three artful narratives of my own: one from my life right after graduation day, one from my life as a music teacher, and one from the lens or voice of a qualitative researcher. I also…