Music, Hope and Transformation through Higher Education
A Psychogeographic Personal Narrative
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Description
This is a creative work of psychogeography, theory and autoethnography, which offers a unique insight into the personal world of music-meaning-making, working-class heritage, and the transformation of identity through a life-long obsession with aeroplanes and flight. Combined, these aspects articulate a progressive journey of transformation through informal learning and higher education, exploring personal progression through the narrative techniques of life-writing and innovative theory work.
The book provides readers with a sequence of intimate and informative provocations through memory and imagination. Shaped around the experience of a car journey (as part of a commute to work), the book invites readers to explore a chaos of memories – provoked by a range of songs encountered as part of a playlist, which emerge as part of a compelling analysis of music, the symbolism of flight, and educative hope.
Through a combination of storytelling and scholarly analysis, the book utilises cultural theory, process philosophy, and biography and invites readers to adapt and incorporate the concepts and psychogeographic techniques for creative student engagements as part of curricular and assessment practices.
Table of Contents
Part I: Music, Psychogeography & Hope: Some Theoretical Permutations
1. Introduction – A Psychogeography for Pedagogic Escape
2. Music, Memory & Haecceity
3. Motorway, Music & Space
Part II: Sonoric Haecceities of Heritage & Entrenchment
4. Childhood: Flight & Imagination
5. Masculinity Autopsy
6. Birds & Longing
7. Souvenir from the Infirmary
8. Storm Damage
9. Unpicking a Revelation
Part III: Sonoric Haecceities of Hope & Redemption
10. Cinematic Reverberation
11. Soteria
12. 35,000 Feet in the Sky
13. Archaeology for a Dinosaur
14. Champion of the World
Part IV: Curricular Expeditions Beyond Pedagogy
15. Born to Run
16. Tellin' Stories
Afterword, David Hayes (University Centre Blackpool and the Fylde College, UK)
Appendix: Undergraduate Essay 'Acquainted with the Night'
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | Sep 03 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350514287 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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