Representing Musical Identities of Children with Migrant Background - An Example from the Research Project Music without Borders

Year 2017, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 32 - 51, 30.12.2017

Wei-ya Lın

https://doi.org/10.33906/musicologist.373139

Abstract

The growing presence of heterogeneous populations
in most European countries has resulted in increased interest in rethinking
systems of compulsory education for citizens, especially for pupils from
migrant backgrounds. This was the starting point for the research project Music
without Borders: Multilingualism in music (bi- and/or multi-musicality) and
understanding the 'other' and the unfamiliar (2015-2017).

Challenges and limitations that
ethnomusicologists have encountered during the operation, as well as strategies
for conducting research on musical identities of pupils with migrant background
will be discussed. Thereafter, the audio- and songbook Sieben Blätter und ein
Stein (Seven Leaves and one Stone), consisting of a printed story with drawings
by pupils, and two music CDs will be presented as an outcome of this project.
In the songbook, research findings are condensed into an artistic pedagogical
product for a broader audience that aims to empower underprivileged Austrian
pupils with migrant backgrounds.

Keywords

Intercultural learning, Intercultural communication, Bi-musicality, Pupils with migrant background, Austrian education, Pupils, Pupils with migrant background

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