Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Colin Enright and Kelsey Lussier
Doctoral Colloquium:听Colin Enright (Music Education); Kelsey Lussier聽(PhD candidate,聽Music Theory)
Title: Resilience-Supportive Processes in Community Drumming (Colin Enright)
Community music engagement has been increasingly recognized as a context for social connection and wellbeing, yet research examining the processes through which resilience may be supported within those contexts remains limited. Guided by a social-ecological framework, this research examines participants鈥� experiences in two community drumming programs in order to map resilience-related mechanisms that may be enacted within participatory music environments. Drawing on a qualitative case series design including semi-structured interviews with members and facilitators, the study identifies three interrelated domains central to participants鈥� accounts: ecological resources, relational processes, and outcomes and transfer. Together, these findings illustrate how commonly identified psychological and social elements in music and wellbeing research鈥攊ncluding positive facilitator influence, a non-punitive environment, belonging, feeling valued, experiences of achievement, shifts in self-efficacy, and strategies for managing stress鈥攎ay function more specifically as resilience-supportive processes. The presentation considers implications for future work in community music, resilience research, and the design of inclusive participatory music environments.
Colin Enright is a PhD candidate in Music Education and Interdisciplinary Studies. His research examines music participation in community and educational contexts and its relationships with resilience, mental health, and well-being, as well as its implications for pedagogical practice. He is an educator, conductor, and co-editor (with Andrea Creech) of the volume Pedagogies for Later-Life Music Learning and Participation: Facilitating Creative Musical Development in Later Life.
Title: The Roles of Texture, Timbre, and Orchestration in Popular-Music Grooves (Kelsey Lussier)
Musical grooves are repeating 鈥渓arge-scale, multi-layered patterns that involve both pitch and rhythmic materials鈥� (Zbikowski 2004). This definition suggests the importance of parameters such as rhythm, meter, texture, and orchestration to the structure of a groove. However, much of the existing analytical and perceptual literature tends to consider a groove鈥檚 rhythmic elements in isolation, painting an incomplete picture of a groove鈥檚 structures. This is partially because effective analytical technology for synthesizing observations about timbre, texture, and orchestration with observations about other musical parameters is currently lacking. Therefore, this project aims to broaden the scope of approaches to analyzing popular-music grooves by presenting a new analytical methodology for incorporating observations about timbre, texture, and orchestration into groove analyses, and by investigating trends and patterns in groove orchestration. My analyses result in orchestrational profiles and comparisons of grooves in both funk music from 1967鈥�1989 and Quebecois popular music from 1990鈥�2026.
Kelsey Lussier is a PhD Candidate in Music Theory whose research focuses on intersections of timbre, texture, and orchestration with rhythm and meter, especially in a popular-music repertoire context.
The Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.
