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Abstract
This paper explores singing lullabies as a practice that opens spaces to reflect on ‘night’ as a sonic and sensory experience with implications for research in music and peacebuilding. Using arts-based and autoethnographic approaches, I ask: Can singing lullabies (Juvancic 2010) open a space to examine how sounding at night shapes a researcher’s ‘peace’ imaginary? This question aims to expand understandings of the ‘self’ as a site of an “aesthetics of resistance” (Möller 2020), or the notion that individual reflection and action sustain social engagement in music and peacebuilding scholarship. These understandings can contribute to interdisciplinary conversations on self-reflexivity and performance as ethnographic access points to peace imaginaries in Night Studies.
Résumé
Cet article explore le chant des berceuses comme une pratique qui ouvre des espaces pour réfléchir sur « la nuit » en tant qu’expérience sonore et sensorielle ayant des implications pour la recherche en musique et la consolidation de la paix. À l’aide d’approches artistiques et autoethnographiques, je pose la question suivante : chanter des berceuses (Juvancic 2010) peut-il ouvrir un espace pour examiner comment le fait de sonner la nuit façonne l’imaginaire de « la paix » d’une chercheuse? Cette question vise à élargir la compréhension du « soi » en tant que site d’une « esthétique de la résistance » (Möller 2020), ou la notion selon laquelle la réflexion et l’action individuelles soutiennent l’engagement social dans la musique et la recherche sur la consolidation de la paix. Ces compréhensions peuvent contribuer à des conversations interdisciplinaires sur l’autoréflexivité et la performance en tant que points d’accès ethnographiques aux imaginaires de paix dans les études nocturnes.
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