The musical actions of mobile youth

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ID21490108
AutoresGabriela Ocádiz (0000-0001-8378-1575, Western University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Fecha de publicación2025-04-17
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Music Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0255-7614 • E-ISSN: 1744-795X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02557614251331675
OpenAlexW4409532088
IdiomaEN
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In this paper, I explore how newcomer youth navigated identity, agency, and adaptation through music education at the Youth Music Program (YMP) in Canada. By analyzing their musical actions, this paper challenges dominant vulnerability narratives and highlights students’ creative and adaptive capacities. Drawing on critical ethnography and sociological perspectives on musical agency, findings suggest that participatory music-making fosters belonging, identity negotiation, and social inclusion. Through improvisation, composition, and collective performance, students demonstrated flexible mobility and cultural integration. I conclude by underscoring the role of music education in shaping social interactions and reimagining belonging in the Canadian context of human mobility

Art · Musical · Sociology · Visual arts · Communication · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology

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