This volume showcases contemporary research about interculturalism and music through exposing critical perspectives about real-world projects spanning different corners of the globe, including China, Germany, Iran, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa regions, North India, Mexico, Taiwan, the UK and the USA. Its aim is twofold: first, to highlight current trends in thinking about interculturalism and music; and second, to illustrate encounters or practices involving music within or about an intercultural context. A broad narrative trajectory reflects perspectives in education, community and creative practice with numerous themes addressed, including culturally responsive teaching, language learning, transculturalism, post-migrant societies, identity formation, power dynamics, audience encounters as well as notions of insider and outsider, self and other and the in-between. This volume serves scholars in a range of fields, especially music education, ethnomusicology, musicology, psychology and cultural studies as well as practitioners working in community and education settings. Students and researchers exploring intercultural practices will find essential case studies and insights applicable to their own work. As a whole, the book is securely bound together by its overall theme of music and interculturalism yet offers diversity of perspective and methodology.
Preface, Understanding Interculturalism in Music Education, Community
and Creative Practice, Inside Out Perspectives of Music and Culture in
Education: Towards Cultural Understanding, Transculturation, Intercultural
Competency and Globalisation, Intercultural Teaching in the Chinese
WhispersTM Project, A British Rock Band in Taiwan: Analysing Concert
Interaction as Intercultural Conversation, Reflections on the Linguistic
Revitalisation Programme Conducted With the Intercultural Orchestra and Choir
of León (OCIL), Mexico, The Annual Event Series of the Centre for
Intercultural Music in Kassel, Germany: Aims, Processes, Challenges, Power,
Agency, Curation: Reframing Experimental Sound Production in Berlin, Germany,
Unmuting the Other: Constructions and Constrictions Within an Iranian
Dastgh and Western Art Music Discourse, Liminality in Cross-Cultural
Composition, Epilogue: Now and Next for Interculturalism in Music Education,
Community and Creative Practice
Elaine King is Reader in Music at the University of Hull, UK. She is a performer and musicologist with research interests in performance studies, music psychology, music theory and analysis.
Simon Desbruslais is an acclaimed British trumpet soloist and musicologist. He was educated at Kings College London, the Royal College of Music and Christ Church, Oxford.
