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About Me as a Researcher
I am Professor of Music Education at Trinity Laban and the Royal College of Music in London and was Head of Higher Education and Research at Sage Gateshead in NE England from 2010-19.
My research focuses on music making and civic imagination / social ecology, group singing, music health and wellbeing, musician education and Community Music,
I have pioneered the use of Sensemaker ‘distributed ethnography’ as a method for research into cultural phenomena.
My philosophy suggests that:
music is about the performance of ‘relationships’ as much as it is the performance of ‘works’, and that the implicit tensions within these contrasting perspectives can be resolved through a foregrounding of their ‘paramusical’ benefits and effects.
Music making is also about the ‘performance’ of ethical (post-)Humanist values - love, reciprocity and democratic equality - which are the foundations of a more equitable and sustainable society, making it a potent form of ‘civic imagination’
Testimonials
“Camlin’s ethical foundation draws compelling parallels with the work of Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who saw community not as a contract of mutual interest but as a covenant of shared responsibility. Musicing, as Camlin describes it, is a covenantal practice: one in which individuals become responsible for and to one another through shared sound, attention, and vulnerability. In resisting commodification, competition, and individualism, Camlin offers a vision of music as what Sacks might call a “moral ecology”—a space where people practice being human together. His “terrapolitan” ideal, in which local musical acts model global responsibility, shares Sacks’ belief that “the future depends on how we learn to share a world that is not ours alone” (Sacks, 2010, p. 143).”
(Prof. Amira Ehrlich, Levinsky College, Tel Aviv)
“A brilliant lecture by a superb academic and practitioner! ”
“Your talk, while brief, gave me one of those lightbulb moments of clarity and purpose in my path. Aha - this is the reason I’m compelled to write and play music! Finally it all made sense. You explained in 10 minutes the actual missing link between music and a better future than I’ve been searching for, seemingly my whole life. That’s the sign of a bloody great teacher isn’t it.”
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