Musics of South Asia: a means for connecting communities?

南亚音乐：连接社区的一种方式？

• 批准号: AH/J012149/1
• 负责人: David Clarke
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ012149%2F1
• 关键词: Musics; South; Asia; means; connecting

The North East of England is home to numerous and diverse South Asian communities. These are defined by geographic origin (e.g. Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and the many regions within these areas), religion, and other social and historical factors. Within these communities music often plays a key, but complex role. It is an activity around which individuals build networks, and a medium through which communities make their culture audible to themselves and the wider community. Music's significance, though, may be double edged. It can be a vehicle through which to reach out to other communities; equally it may be a way of turning inwards - a symptom of resistance to connection, or an assertion of difference.Communities (South Asian, other minority ethnic, and white) can come into meaningful contact through music and other arts - but how is this fostered, beyond the occasional public event? How can both the local and global significance of such cultural forms be communicated and understood beyond their ethnic origins, and how might these shape new imaginings of a society of multiple - and possibly multiply connecting - cultures?The scoping study proposed here seeks to review existing bodies of literature germane to these and other questions, from such fields as ethnomusicology, urban musicology, cultural studies and sociology. It also draws on the expertise of organisations that already have much practical experience in representing and supporting South Asian and other minority ethnic communities. These include arts development organisations such as Gem Arts, Kalapremi, and Saarang - Arts and Culture, which, alongside The Sage Gateshead, a further Project Partner, have substantial experience of community engagement.With a view to an eventual larger, practically engaged project (in effect a piece of interactive fieldwork), this review aims to scope out some of the key issues and essential methodologies - both interrogating the existing scholarly and theoretical literature, and drawing on the significant practical experience of arts oranisations whose concern is with (or includes) South Asian music. Our key research questions include:* In what ways do South Asian musics act as a vehicle for articulating identity and for fostering and connecting communities - including connections with 'majority ethnic' society? (Conversely, how might musical differences reinforce cultural ones?)* How could this potential be further developed, and what role could arts organisations and educational institutions play in this? How can organisations better interface with one another?* What is the impact of such factors as class, religion, gender, race, ethnicity, and histories of migration in shaping communities, and in both facilitating and impeding connection between them?* To what extent can music (and other art forms) serve to cut across such factors (and to what it extent might it reinforce them)?* How, in these contexts, should we understand such terms as 'network' and 'community', and how might the one strengthen the other?*To what extent are answers to the above relevant to other minority ethnic communities, and to broader understandings of multiculturalism?In this investigation we will collaborate with arts development organisations by means of structured interviews and workshops. We will share our various types of expertise with the intention of further developing strategies for impact on - or, perhaps better, agency with - communities and groups who seek greater cultural and social connectivity through music and other arts. Our outputs, in addition to the literature review, will include conference presentations, at least two peer reviewed articles, and an action plan for future engagement between our own HEI, communities and arts organisations.

英格兰东北部是许多不同南亚社区的家园。这些是由地理起源（例如印度，巴基斯坦，孟加拉国和这些地区内的许多地区），宗教和其他社会和历史因素定义的。在这些社区中，音乐往往发挥着关键而复杂的作用。它是一项个人建立网络的活动，也是社区向自己和更广泛的社区传播其文化的媒介。然而，音乐的重要性可能是双刃剑。它可以是一种与其他社区接触的工具，也可以是一种向内的方式--一种抵制联系的症状，或者是一种差异的主张。社区（南亚人、其他少数民族和白色人）可以通过音乐和其他艺术进行有意义的接触--但除了偶尔的公共活动，如何培养这种接触呢？这种文化形式的地方性和全球性意义如何能够超越其种族渊源而得到传播和理解，以及这些文化形式如何能够塑造一个多元文化社会的新面貌-而且可能是多元文化相互联系的社会？在此提出的范围研究旨在回顾与这些和其他问题密切相关的现有文献，这些文献来自民族音乐学，城市音乐学，文化研究和社会学等领域。它还借鉴了在代表和支持南亚和其他少数民族社区方面已经有很多实际经验的组织的专门知识。其中包括艺术发展组织，如宝石艺术，Kalapremi和Saarang -艺术与文化，与另一个项目合作伙伴The Sage Gateshead一起，拥有丰富的社区参与经验。（实际上是一个互动的实地考察），本综述旨在探讨一些关键问题和基本方法-既质疑现有的学术和理论文献，并借鉴了关注（或包括）南亚音乐的艺术组织的重要实践经验。我们的主要研究问题包括：* 南亚音乐以何种方式作为表达身份和促进和连接社区的工具-包括与“多数民族”社会的联系？（反过来说，音乐差异如何强化文化差异？）如何进一步开发这种潜力，艺术组织和教育机构在这方面可以发挥什么作用？如何更好地相互沟通？*阶级、宗教、性别、种族、民族和移民历史等因素在塑造社区以及促进和阻碍社区之间的联系方面有何影响？音乐（和其他艺术形式）在多大程度上可以跨越这些因素（以及在多大程度上可以加强这些因素）？在这种情况下，我们应该如何理解“网络”和“社区”这两个术语，以及这两个术语如何加强另一个？对上述问题的回答在多大程度上与其他少数民族社区以及对多元文化的更广泛理解相关？在这次调查中，我们将通过结构化访谈和研讨会与艺术发展机构合作。我们将分享我们的各种类型的专业知识，旨在进一步制定战略，对那些通过音乐和其他艺术寻求更大的文化和社会联系的社区和团体产生影响，或者更好地与他们合作。我们的产出，除了文献综述，将包括会议演示文稿，至少两个同行评审的文章，并为我们自己的高等教育机构，社区和艺术组织之间的未来参与的行动计划。

项目成果

'Connecting cultures? South Asian musics and an emerging multiculturalism in North East England'

连接文化？

• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Clarke, D.

'South Asian musics, cultures and communities in Newcastle upon Tyne and the North East of England'

“泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔和英格兰东北部的南亚音乐、文化和社区”

• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Clarke, D.

Rescripting Religion in the City

重新定义城市中的宗教

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Hodgson, T.

'South Asian musics, multiculturalism and communities: a review of literature and key Concepts'

“南亚音乐、多元文化主义和社区：文献和关键概念回顾”

• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Hodgson, T.

Online bibliography: 'Musics of South Asia: a means for connecting communities?'

在线参考书目：“南亚音乐：连接社区的一种方式？”

• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Hodgson. T