Guitar Express: Accompanied “Songs of Deserts”1 as Oases in Life-long Memory Journeys

Ioanna Etmektsoglou, Kiki Kerzeli, Katerina Vlachoutsou
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Being able to play the guitar and sing one’s favorite songs is often an unrealized adolescent dream. Guitar Express is a group music making approach that aims to enable people to realize this dream and develop an identity of amateur musician regardless of age. This is achieved through the use of an alternate tuning of the guitar and a variety of 'tricks' that are being constantly developed to address individual and group needs. The following paper is informed by arts-based research and attempts to provide a general impression of the Guitar Express group approach. Based on the expressions of adults and senior aged adults who have participated in one or more of its groups—as well as the verbal contributions and interpretations of two teachers, a collaborating psychologist, and myself as initiator and supervisor of the program—the major benefits for the Guitar Express participants are, that a) it functions as a means for them to express and regulate their emotions, b) it counteracts feelings of isolation, c) it allows them to experience deeply personal and shared group moments, d) it provides opportunities for dealing and preparing for various kinds of losses, e) it helps people accept personal limitations while searching for alternative solutions, f) it improves the quality of everyday life through its infusion with collective musicking, and g) acts as motivator for involvement in a social music activity. At a more general level, the Guitar Express group experience may be seen as a musically driven journey into the linearity and circularity of time; it may revitalize the participants' memories of their 'songs of deserts', transforming them to oases in personal life-stories, re-enabling connections with the past and augmenting meaningfulness in the present.
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吉他快车:伴随“沙漠之歌”1作为生命记忆旅程中的绿洲
能够弹吉他,唱自己喜欢的歌曲,往往是青少年未实现的梦想。吉他快车是一种旨在让人们实现这一梦想,并培养出与年龄无关的业余音乐家身份的团体音乐制作方式。这是通过使用吉他的交替调音和各种“技巧”来实现的,这些技巧正在不断发展,以满足个人和团体的需求。下面的论文是根据艺术为基础的研究,并试图提供一个吉他快车组方法的总体印象。根据参加过一个或多个小组的成年人和老年人的表达,以及两位老师、一位合作心理学家和我作为项目发起人和主管的口头贡献和解释,吉他快车参与者的主要好处是:a)它是他们表达和调节情绪的一种手段;b)它抵消了孤立感;C)它让他们体验到深刻的个人和共享的群体时刻,d)它提供了处理和准备各种损失的机会,e)它帮助人们在寻找替代解决方案的同时接受个人局限性,f)它通过注入集体音乐来提高日常生活质量,g)作为参与社会音乐活动的动机。在更普遍的层面上,《吉他快车》的团队体验可以看作是一次音乐驱动的线性和循环时间之旅;它可能会重新激活参与者对“沙漠之歌”的记忆,将它们转化为个人生活故事中的绿洲,重新建立与过去的联系,并增加当前的意义。
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