Sara Well, presented a document where it’s possible to read some important aspects about auto-ethnography.
The importance of doing auto-ethnography is to link the personal and the cultural. In a way, understand one’s experience about a societal phenomenon.
The point of using autoethnography is using myself to get to culture.
How my experience is useful for other composers?
How autoethnography can help other composers? Using my won experience.
My experience connected to my sociological understanding
Analyse my own experience is much more than just .... self critique.
How to construct data in a social way - Bloor, Goldberg & Emilie, 1991; Garkinkel, 1967; Gephart, 1988; Knoee-Celina, 1991
Respect your questions and problems
Qualitative Research, autobiography and heuristic research
“Not unlike more familiar approaches to qualitative research, common products of autoethnographic research can include “short stories, poetry, fiction, novels, photographic essays, personal essays, journals, fragmented and layered writing, and social science prose” - I’m allowed to use these. However, it must have a self-critique approach and a social/cultural impact.
“Autoethnography based personal narratives are highly personalised, revealing texts in which authors tell stories about their own lived experience, relating the personal to the cultural...”
It’s important to understand how my research, my music, my experience and my autoethnogrsaphy will reflect the social and cultural environment where I’m now - composers, musicians and researchers.
So, what’s my criteria in using Autoethnography?
“I see autoethnography as a research method that is part of, but delineated from, the broader realm of autobiography... Personal stories can coexist with autoethnographic research.”