Music refuge : living asylum through music / Ailbhe Kenny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenny, Ailbhe, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Forced migration--Social aspects.

Forced migration.

Refugees--Social conditions.

Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Forced migration has led to the creation of unique spaces within varying contexts where music is made, shared, and experienced. 'Music Refuge' charts over eight years of research to uncover the musical lives of those seeking asylum and refuge in 'host' countries. This book explores how migration, mobility, and emplacement become entangled through musical interactions, focusing on how people seeking asylum create musical spaces. Through music, asylum seekers discover alternate forms of identity that resist categorizations, nationalisms, monocultures, and fixed geographies. Moving away from refugee and asylum-seeking tropes that rely on narratives of victimhood, this book foregrounds agency and the claiming of space while living within and through asylum seeking systems.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-778015-6

0-19-778016-4

0-19-778014-8

OCLC:

1524297188