The meaning of music creation : A qualitative study about folk high school music students and their music creation

This qualitative study, which is based on the sociocultural perspective as a theory, has the aim to investigate how music students attending a Swedish folk high school talk about their own music creation. The study is based on three main concepts. The first and second, emotions and feelings, explores how the students talks about these two concepts as a part of their music creation while the third concept focus are how the students talks about their music creation process. The method consists of loosely structured interviews with four music students on the selected folk high school. The results present that the music studying informants have very equal thoughts and opinion about their own music creation. The categories that is formed are feelings, process, childhood and language and deadlines. In the discussion chapter the results are compared to previous research. Lastly several suggestions to further research is presented