Person-environment relationships: influences beyond acoustics in musical performance
Armstrong, James (2021) Person-environment relationships: influences beyond acoustics in musical performance. In: Musical spaces: place, performance, and power. Jenny Stanford Publishing, New York. ISBN 9781003180418
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The environment in which a musical performance takes place is highly influential over a musician’s playing and performance and over their experience while doing so. Existing research within music performance studies tends to focus on the effects of the acoustic characteristics within an environment on a musician’s playing. This chapter aims to reveal how person-environment relationships can be influential in the context of a musical performance, focusing on themes of behaviour-settings, socio-cultural significance, and personal meaning. Environmental psychology is a discipline concerned with the study of the interactions between humans and their surroundings; how behaviour-settings, social instruction, and place attachment affect the ways we perceive and experience our built environment. The chapter discusses themes of behaviour-settings, social and cultural significance, and personal meaning. A local musician is likely to be familiar with the cultural significance of an environment, whereas a visiting musician may approach it with an outsider’s perspective.
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