Young People’s Musical Lives

Abstract

Young people’s musical lives both shape and are shaped by the construction and promotion of particular kinds of music learning identities. Learning identities develop over time within particular learning ecologies consisting of social structures and power relations that address, represent, and act upon young people as music learners of a particular type, reshaping their experiences and sense of connectedness when engaging in music-related activities. This chapter considers and reflects critically on how these ideas are echoed in young people’s descriptions of their experiences of engaging in music activities as part of their everyday musical lives. Drawing on ecological theoretical perspectives and interviews with young people, the aim is to gain insights into the unique configurations of music learning ecologies that young people inhabit and to highlight the usefulness of documenting personal learning environments and exploring their affordances and constraints on what young people perceive as desirable and possible music activity horizons.

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