Jari Rinne
DissertationAs actor-based and momentary communities, the bands formed by middle-aged men represent as a hobby form of social participation and communality. This is a study of amateur musicians’ experiences from the band communities, music, and playing as individual and communal voluntary action. My research aims to approach amateur musicians told experiences simultaneously refecting on their ways of production, writing, and compiled possible worlds. Possible worlds are collages of all the hobby bands I encountered during my action research. As a fellow performer, I was able to observe and document amateur musicians’ experiences by being part of them and producing them as an active participant and researcher. The experiences of amateur musicians are approached through the terms voluntary and experience, collected in possible worlds. I produce and reach the hobbyist musicians’ approached experiences by compiling. My prior understanding based on my own experience works as a starting point and refects amateur musicians’ own experience and emotional habitus produced during the musicking. My background as an amateur musician is an initiative to a more conscious interpretation of meanings and understanding built from collecting the knowledge.
This research is an entrance to the experiences, which otherwise could have been unreachable. The amateur bands use many metaphorical expressions, which are not directly apparent to outsiders. The relationships between the elements of the materials encountered during the research in diferent forms (like playing, talking, texts, acts, drawings) formulate the totality of understanding in the dialogue between the texts and the researcher. The subjects of my analysis are the impossibly unreachable acts of amateur musicians and linguistic expressions based on everyday thinking of them and the non-linguistic ways of writing lyrics. Encounters joint my own amateur playing with the experienced and told by others. Combined with my amateur playing, the material used in the research, produced in the encounters, and understood in writing, my research refects the relevant experiences in amateur musicianship. I set my amateur playing as a starting point, transporting it through the material to the compiled with written possible worlds about amateur playing. Read the dissertation (in Finnish) here. |