Music, Mattering, and Criminalized Young Men: Exploring Music Elicitation as a Feminist Arts-Based Research and Intervention Tool

Music can be a powerful tool for communication, and Music,Mattering,and Criminalized Young Men explores its use as a social research method, pedagogical tool, and youth work intervention. Jade Levell's analysis provides a deep exploration and articulation of this method as a compelling narrative device that empowers participants, particularly men in prison and on probation in Albania. Levell develops the theory of 'sonic mattering' to explore the role music plays in the lives of young people as they seek to establish their place in the world. The book demonstrates music elicitation's effectiveness in boosting participant engagement, building trust, and encouraging participants to share stories of their marginalization. It is a cutting-edge study grounded in a new feminist arts-based research and intervention tool and has been renamed to "Emerald Studies in Culture, Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Arts" effective for 2025 publications onward.

Format: Hardback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 23 May 2024
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Music has been used as a powerful means of communication throughout history, and its application in the Balkans is no exception. In the book "Music,Mattering,and Criminalized Young Men," Jade Levell explores the use of music elicitation as a social research method, pedagogical tool, and youth work intervention. Grounded in feminist principles, Levell's analysis provides a deep exploration and articulation of this method as a compelling narrative device that empowers participants, in this case men in prison and on probation in Albania, throughout the research process.

Levell frames music elicitation and creation as professional listening tools and develops the theory of "sonic mattering" to explore the role music plays in the lives of young people as they seek to establish their place in the world. Situating music elicitation as a method of utmost importance, chapters demonstrate its potential to disrupt traditional power imbalances by positioning the participant as expert. Drawing on a context of international development, Levell demonstrates music elicitations' effectiveness in boosting participant engagement, building trust over a short period of time, and encouraging participants to share stories of their marginalization.

A cutting-edge study grounded in a new feminist arts-based research and intervention tool, "Music,Mattering,and Criminalized Young Men" propounds an effective new methodology for social research and fundamental human engagement. This series has been renamed to "Emerald Studies in Culture, Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Arts" effective for 2025 publications onward.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781837537693