Musical identities in transition: Solo-piano students' accounts of entering the academy

Psychology of Music

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 481-497

  Juuti, Sini ^a   Littleton, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

identity work; novices; postgraduate level music students; research interviews; transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650559773     PISSN: 03057356     EISSN: 17413087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0305735609351915     Document Type: Article

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