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E-book Ethical Musicality
Ethical problems, dilemmas, and unpleasant experiences arise in real-life settings. There may be a friend calling for advice in a difficult situation or when waiting at a bus stop seeing a person losing balance and hitting their head when collapsing. What is sensible advice, and what is the right thing to do in the specific setting? Ethics unfolds as lived experiences in our daily lives and is fundamental to understanding ourselves—and others in the world. It concerns what constitutes a good life. Ethics is about identify-ing a moral dilemma, reflecting systematically, to handle ethical quandaries based on thorough investigation philosophically, theoretically, and in real-world encounters (Aadland, 2018). Ethics is not a fixed entity; it is fresh produce.Ethical queries likewise arise in musical settings, theory-building and research in music. A musician may have acquired some information about the performed music’s composer, which she/he cannot reveal. A music therapist may have to choose between patients in palliative care due to limited resources. Similarly, a music educator may know that a parent highly thwarts a pupil’s musical training engagement. There are also music examples in torture settings, which raise questions of control and unethical behaviour. As an aesthetic art form, the music is ambiguous and allows for various experiences and interpretations with ethical bearings.Ethics is an old discipline rooted in Antiquity (Socrates, Plato, and Aris-totle). However, there seems to be a renewed and increased emphasis on ethics during the last century due to technological development, the profes-sionalization of working life, and globalization (Carson & Kosberg, 2011).First, technological developments can provide new opportunities and, at the same time, bring with them further questions, values, and choices. Access to music and musical expressions has changed. On the one hand, more peo-ple can express themselves musically (perform/compose) through techno-logical innovations and upload their performances on digital platforms On the other hand, many people may feel insufficient to access music as the technical devices appear foreign due to its interpretation and reading as software instead of a physical artefact like a DVD or CD.Second, working life’s professionalization may, for example, lead to the performing musician feeling artistically unimportant in a society seemingly less concerned about the value of lived music performances. Some music therapists say they leave the profession because the musical practice seems to lose its relational basis due to efficiency requirements, a time-consuming reporting system, and a financially pressured everyday life. In comparison, music pedagogues disclose they feel alienated in their professional job because music as a part of the human ‘Bildung’ process (psychological and moral growth of individual character) is increasingly given less attention in curricula in the formative years from childhood to maturity.
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