Autoethnograpy, Self-Reflecivity, and Personal Expereince as Academic Research in Music Studies by Dr Christopher Leedham) - Abstract
"The requirement for PhD composers to write about their own work may have created unhelpful aesthetic expectations - whether institutionally specific or more widely - and even fetishised quantifiable compositional procedures. Composers may feel the need to explain their musical decisions too objectively and in doing so create teleological justifications that tactic assert idealised notions of genius."