‘Stories from a Bodyless Singer and a Voiceless Dancer’: Dialogical Musings Through Kaleidoscopic Perspectives of Difference and Sameness

This chapter is a storied text of two artists, teachers, and researchers’ dialogical musings around issues of sameness and difference. The methodology of duoethnography (Norris & Sawyer, 2012), crafting and telling our stories from our different perspectives, propelled us forward with the query of: How might knowledge within narrative inquiry in music education be created? Anchoring ourselves in feminist new materialism (Braidotti, 2019) allows us to ground narratives and storytelling as an established and rigorous research approach (Adams et al., 2017; Bochner & Ellis, 2016; Pelias, 2004). Sharing stories enables us to embrace ways of doing and performing narrative inquiry in music education as something fluid and vulnerable, but powerful, something that connects us as material beings in the world. We also show how through dialoguing we might critique, push boundaries, and try to envision music education and the academy as a space where a multiplicity of voices might be listened to and shared, dialoguing through kaleidoscopic stories.