Value alignment in applied and community-based music research
Author(s):
Klisala Harrison
Publication Year:
2020
Type:
journal article
Journal/Book Title
Musiikki
Publisher
Editor(s):
Pages:
71-87
Volume:
1
Issue:
2
Abstract:
The alignment of researchers’ and researched communities’ values is common in music research methodologies of applied ethnomusicology, applied musicology, community music studies, music therapy and some areas of music psychology and music for health studies. Such fields focus on use-inspired research (Stokes 1997). I define value alignment as occurring when values among different research participants seem consistent, complementary or aligned. In such areas of applied and community-based music research, researcher and researched community value alignment emerges often in the context of musical interventions made in community. What are the benefits and risks of aligning one’s values as a researcher with values in a music community, within research processes? What are directions and methodologies for related future research on researcher values, researched community values and intersections between the two? I argue that a critical approach to useinspired research on music, when it comes to values, could minimize various risks and maximize benefits of value alignment. I also call for new work on value fluidity. Value fluidity refers to the intersections of values of individual human beings and institutions (organizational or otherwise social) as well as which value systems these intersections create and how those fluctuate over time.
Permalink:
https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/files/160367305/95488_Artikkelin_teksti_158833_1_10_20200605.pdfCitation (Chicago Author-Date):
Harrison, Klisala. 2020. “Value Alignment in Applied and Community-Based Music Research.” Musiikki 1 (2): 71–87. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/files/160367305/95488_Artikkelin_teksti_158833_1_10_20200605.pdf.