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Exploring the Factors Influencing Chinese Music Teachers’ Perceptions and Behavioural Intentions in Using Technology in Higher Education: A Pilot Study (2021)
Journal Article
King, A., Zhang, X., & Prior, H. (in press). Exploring the Factors Influencing Chinese Music Teachers’ Perceptions and Behavioural Intentions in Using Technology in Higher Education: A Pilot Study. Music and Science, 4, https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043211044819

The development of new technologies drives many aspects of socio-economic development, including the development of education. The behavioural intention of music teachers, particularly in relation to how technology is integrated into the classroom, n... Read More about Exploring the Factors Influencing Chinese Music Teachers’ Perceptions and Behavioural Intentions in Using Technology in Higher Education: A Pilot Study.

Production perspectives of heavy metal record producers (2019)
Journal Article
Thomas, N., & King, A. (2019). Production perspectives of heavy metal record producers. Popular music, 38(3), 498-517. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114301900031X

The study of the recorded artefact from a musicological perspective continues to unfold through contemporary research. Whilst an understanding of the scientific elements of recorded sound is well documented, the exploration of the production and the... Read More about Production perspectives of heavy metal record producers.

Exploring wellbeing and creativity through collaborative composition as part of Hull 2017 City of Culture (2019)
Journal Article
Waddington-Jones, C., King, A., & Burnard, P. (2019). Exploring wellbeing and creativity through collaborative composition as part of Hull 2017 City of Culture. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(MAR), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00548

© 2019 Waddington-Jones, King and Burnard. Several studies have highlighted the positive effects of group music-making and have suggested that it may be the creative and social aspects of such activities, which have a positive effect on participants'... Read More about Exploring wellbeing and creativity through collaborative composition as part of Hull 2017 City of Culture.

Exploring teachers’ and pupils’ behaviour in online and face-to-face instrumental lessons (2019)
Journal Article
King, A., Prior, H., & Waddington-Jones, C. (2019). Exploring teachers’ and pupils’ behaviour in online and face-to-face instrumental lessons. Music education research, 21(2), 197-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2019.1585791

The provision of instrumental lessons in certain areas of England can be hampered by the geographical position of some schools that are rural in nature, with teachers needing to travel long distances between schools. Internet-based technologies have... Read More about Exploring teachers’ and pupils’ behaviour in online and face-to-face instrumental lessons.

A synchrotron X-radiography study of the fragmentation and refinement of primary intermetallic particles in an Al-35 Cu alloy induced by ultrasonic melt processing (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, F., Eskin, D., Mi, J., Wang, C., Koe, B., King, A., …Connolley, T. (2017). A synchrotron X-radiography study of the fragmentation and refinement of primary intermetallic particles in an Al-35 Cu alloy induced by ultrasonic melt processing. Acta Materialia, 141, 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.09.010

Using synchrotron X-ray high speed radiography, the fragmentation and refinement of pre-existing primary Al2Cu intermetallic dendrites induced by ultrasonic melt processing in a hypereutectic Al-35% Cu alloy were studied in-situ and in real time. The... Read More about A synchrotron X-radiography study of the fragmentation and refinement of primary intermetallic particles in an Al-35 Cu alloy induced by ultrasonic melt processing.

The Routledge companion to music, technology, and education (2017)
Book
King, A. (2017). The Routledge companion to music, technology, and education. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686431

The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education is a comprehensive resource that draws together burgeoning research on the use of technology in music education around the world. Rather than following a procedural how-to approach, this com... Read More about The Routledge companion to music, technology, and education.

Music, technology, and education: Critical perspectives (2016)
Book
King, A. (2016). Music, technology, and education: Critical perspectives. Oxford: Routledge

The use of technology in music and education can no longer be described as a recent development. Music learners actively engage with technology in their music making, regardless of the opportunities afforded to them in formal settings. This volume dr... Read More about Music, technology, and education: Critical perspectives.

Technology as a vehicle (tool and practice) for developing diverse creativities (2015)
Book Chapter
King, A. (2015). Technology as a vehicle (tool and practice) for developing diverse creativities. In Activating Diverse Musical Creativities (203-222). London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474220316.ch-011

Burnard’s seminal work, Musical Creativities in Practice, has begun to change the way creativity is viewed in music (2012) . In this work Burnard rejects the view of a single concept of creativity that encompasses all aspects of music and instead pro... Read More about Technology as a vehicle (tool and practice) for developing diverse creativities.

The Student Prince: Music-making with technology (2012)
Book Chapter
King, A. (2012). The Student Prince: Music-making with technology. In G. E. McPherson, & G. F. Welch (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Education (476 - 491). Hull: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199928019.013.0031

This article examines recording studio practice in education. It begins by tracing the historical background of music-making with technology and providing an overview of how technology is used in the music curriculum. It then discusses the key relati... Read More about The Student Prince: Music-making with technology.

Contingent learning for creative music technologists (2009)
Journal Article
King, A. (2009). Contingent learning for creative music technologists. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 18(2), 137-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759390902992550

This article will review educational literature relevant to the design and implementation of a learning technology interface (LTI) into an undergraduate music technology curriculum. It also explores through empirical enquiry some of the advantages an... Read More about Contingent learning for creative music technologists.

An expert in absentia: a case study for using technology to support recording studio practice (2009)
Conference Proceeding
King, A. (2009). An expert in absentia: a case study for using technology to support recording studio practice. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.2.2-3.175_1

This paper examines the use of a Learning Technology Interface (LTI) to support the completion of a recording workbook with audio examples over a 10-week period. The VLE provided contingent support to studio users for technical problems encountered i... Read More about An expert in absentia: a case study for using technology to support recording studio practice.

Collaborative learning in the music studio (2008)
Journal Article
King, A. (2008). Collaborative learning in the music studio. Music education research, 10(3), 423-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613800802280167

This article presents some of the findings from a mixed-methods case study that investigated collaborative learning for pairs of higher education students working in a music studio on a drum kit recording. A stratified purposive sampling technique wa... Read More about Collaborative learning in the music studio.