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Valuing and Evaluating Musical Practice-as-research in Ethnomusicology and its Implications for Research Assessment

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Abstract

Although research assessment as it occurs in the UK and Australia is not ubiquitous, this article will show how research assessment exercises in Anglophone, Eurocentric locations set bench benchmarks for what ‘counts’ as research excellence and innovative thinking globally. Through exploring the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) and Australia’s Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) we ask how ethnomusicological approaches might be used to formulate more refined processes for valuing and evaluating research outputs produced beyond the normative medium of text. We show how an over-reliance on textual outputs obstructs certain groups from participating fully in knowledge production through research. Using Indigenous Australian case studies, we suggest ethnomusicologists have a ready-made toolkit at their disposal, which if shared more widely can inform more equitable frameworks for assessing and valuing a fuller spectrum of music research outputs and impacts overall.

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Author(s): Swijghuisen Reigersberg M, Corn A, McKerrell S

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Ethnomusicology Forum

Year: 2022

Volume: 31

Issue: 1

Pages: 28-49

Online publication date: 29/04/2022

Acceptance date: 09/08/2020

Date deposited: 04/07/2023

ISSN (print): 1741-1912

ISSN (electronic): 1741-1920

Publisher: Routledge

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2022.2059772

DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2022.2059772

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