Full Description
This book examines how musical activities shape daily life in reception centres, connecting fragmented experiences, building cross-cultural relationships, maintaining personal identity, and creating transformative moments.
By exploring music-making within the broader sonic and material environments of asylum-seekers' lives—contrasted against the constraints of refugee status and legal uncertainty—the study reveals music as a space of hope emerging from participants' creativity and aesthetic expression. It traces how individuals navigate complex feelings of belonging and non-belonging, shifting focus toward understanding precarity and resilience.
'Encountering and mobilising senses of (non)belonging among asylum seekers in Greece: Refugees Musicking' contributes to reconstituting our understanding of the major discourses around (forced) migration. This book contributes to the following fields of study: Refugee and Migration Studies; Ethnomusicology of Migration; Anthropology of Migration; Anthropology of Music.
Contents
Acknowledgements, Introduction: An Ethnography of Encounters, 1. Everyday Life Sounding, Regimes of Silence Crumbling, 2. Learning Music, Teaching Music, 3. Making music: orchestrating modes of (in)audibility and (in)visibility, 4. Listening to, Listening With, Epilogue
