
However, preparations often neglect important aspects of a good delivery. Speech and recital contests are not rare in the language learning landscape of Japan and elsewhere. This paper captures the depth and intensity of emotions, engagement and transformative affects that adolescents experience through music making ﰀ music matters to young people." As well, arts-based methods such as a/r/tography, offer multiple and complex perspectives of what the data ‘means’, thereby offering a welcome harmony of topic and method. Our contention here is that arts-based topics are complemented and illuminated when investigated through arts-based methods.

While music education has a body of scholarship on students’ attitudes towards music and their music education, this kind of research has generally been presented in more traditional ways. Those studies demonstrate the efficacy of the highly condensed haiku to transmit meaning in a synthesised and creative form. These kids perform R&B tunes, in a highly professional manner, at local and provincial music festivals The decision to translate and analyse the interview transcripts into the Japanese poetry form of haiku is rooted in research literature in education and other fields, primarily health and nursing studies.

"In this study, we offer an arts-based a/r/tographic inquiry using poetic transcription and representation of interviews conducted with a co-educational group of 14 students in a West Vancouver, British Columbia secondary school rhythm and blues band class.
