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Link to Thesis: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13683

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This study examines the informal music learning practices of young people in the UK and Australia. Using a theoretical framework drawn from childhood studies that prioritises the voices of young people, this collective case study design utilised ethnographic methods including video-recorded observation, semi-structured interviews, research conversations, and fieldnotes and sought to document the experiences of children and adolescents aged between 4 and 14. It presents a new way of conceptualising the informal learning of music based on the real-life experiences of young people, and proposes that it may be more fruitful to consider the term “informal learnings”, which acknowledges that multiple forms of informal learning can exist, and co-exist...

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