Max Liedtke / Horant Schulz: Knabenchor – Last, Glück, Lebenschance? Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel des Windsbacher Knabenchors. Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag 2012 [Rezension]

Rezension von: Max Liedtke / Horant Schulz: Knabenchor – Last, Glück, Lebenschance? Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel des Windsbacher Knabenchors, Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag 2012 (156 S.; ISBN 978-3-89639-845-1)

„Am Liebsten wollte ich nur noch zuhören, das konnte ich nicht, weil: ich musste singen.“ Eine Untersuchung zum Erleben von Kindern bei ihrer Teilnahme an einem Chorkonzert

How do children experience participating in a choral performance? What matters most to them? How do they remember and talk about the event? The interview-based study demonstrates that children retain complex memories of such an event and can report on the experience in a differentiated manner, including their self-perception while singing, their social experience, and the various emotions associated with it. They evaluate the songs that were sung, and imbue the venue with meaning. Active participation in a choral performance enables children to share and reflect on music, providing them with a lasting, positively connoted memory of a musical experience. (DIPF/Orig.)