Creating Spaces of Music Asylum in Ethnically Divided Contexts
Young People’s Accounts from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sri Lanka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18950656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Howell (0000-0002-5621-8143, The University of Melbourne), Solveig Korum |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 258-274 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conflict and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2164-4543 • E-ISSN: 2164-4551 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/arcs.2022.080116 |
| OpenAlex | W4312339445 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article explores the ways in which arts experiences in conflicted and territorialized settings may invite a heightened engagement with space, and what this suggests about creative experiences as a vehicle for transforming space and the (re)construction of one’s presence and place in the world. Presenting ethnographic data from two youth music projects established after the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sri Lanka and argued from the perspective of musician-practitioner-researchers, the authors examine how musical interaction, improvisation, and performance creation enabled processes of exploring, reconfiguring, and expanding the participants’ identities and sense of place in the surrounding world. Using Tia DeNora’s conceptualization of “music asylum,” the article shows how strategies of removal and refurnishing created creative and safe spaces in which alternative lives and more complex identities could be rehearsed and conflict narratives could be revised, fostering a temporary transformation of space that is captured in metaphors like bubble, refuge, and sanctuary
Aesthetics · Art · Conceptualization · Ethnic group · Ethnically diverse · Ethnography · Improvisation · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Musical · Narrative · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · The arts · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Gender Studies · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis
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Legends of People, Myths of State
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |