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Extra-curricular music in UK schools: Investigating the aims, experiences, and impact of adolescent musical participation

This study contributes to international understanding of a distinctive feature of UK music education provision - the opportunity to take part in extra-curricular music performance activities. The article considers these experiences through two empirical studies: one in real-time, as young people prepare for a school production of 'Anything Goes', and the other through retrospective life history accounts. The comparison of immediate experience with more distant memories of school music highlights the short- and long-term benefits of musical participation in school years.

The research uses the novel approaches of audio diaries and life history accounts to bring new perspectives to research methods in music education, and achieved its aim of highlighting distinctive UK practice by being discussed in 'Music Education for Changing Times' (ed. Regelski & Gates, 2009), a significant US publication.