Making Sense of My Creativity: Reflecting on Digital Autoethnography
Musgrave, G. 2019. Making Sense of My Creativity: Reflecting on Digital Autoethnography. Journal of Artistic and Creative Education. 13 (1), pp. 1-11.
Musgrave, G. 2019. Making Sense of My Creativity: Reflecting on Digital Autoethnography. Journal of Artistic and Creative Education. 13 (1), pp. 1-11.
| Title | Making Sense of My Creativity: Reflecting on Digital Autoethnography |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Musgrave, G. |
| Abstract | By examining specific datasets used in my research into my own career as a musician, this paper presents an argument for the use of digital data-trails in the construction of creative career-based autoethnographies. The paper is driven by a desire to assist researchers, notably students but practitioner academics too, interested in using their own creative lives as an object of research by reflecting on my own experiences of conducting a four-year research project which traced my artistic career from unknown rapper to a songwriter signed to Sony/EMI/ATV. In doing so, I hope to offer educators working in the creative arts a helping starting point for our research students. It is suggested that key to the autoethnographic approach is the generation of data, and that for contemporary musicians-and others in creative fields-the way our careers are digitally self-documented online presents interesting possibilities for reconsidering data sources. This paper critically considers the practice of autoethnography, contributing towards literature which both evaluates this methodology and seeks to offer a perspective which might help other researchers interested in the suitability and applicability of autoethnography to investigate their own creative careers and experiences. |
| Keywords | autoethnography |
| music | |
| creativity | |
| research methods | |
| qualitative | |
| Journal | Journal of Artistic and Creative Education |
| Journal citation | 13 (1), pp. 1-11 |
| ISSN | 1832-0465 |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | Journal of Artistic and Creative Education |
| Web address (URL) | https://jace.online/index.php/jace/article/view/92 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 20 Oct 2019 |