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.

英格兰东北部是众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、孟加拉国以及这些地区的许多地区）、宗教和其他社会和历史因素定义的。在这些群体中，音乐往往扮演着关键而复杂的角色。它是一种个人建立网络的活动，也是一种社区让自己和更广泛的社区听到自己文化的媒介。然而，音乐的意义可能是一把双刃剑。它可以成为接触其他社区的工具；同样，它也可能是一种转向内在的方式——一种抵制联系的症状，或者一种对差异的断言。社区（南亚人、其他少数民族和白人）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之外，这种接触是如何培养的？这些文化形式的本地和全球意义如何在其种族起源之外进行交流和理解？这些文化形式如何塑造一个多元文化社会的新想象——可能是多种文化之间的联系？本文提出的范围研究旨在回顾与这些和其他问题相关的现有文献，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践经验的组织的专业知识。其中包括艺术发展组织，如Gem arts， Kalapremi和Saarang - arts and Culture，它们与Sage Gateshead（进一步的项目合作伙伴）一起，拥有丰富的社区参与经验。从一个最终更大的、实际参与的项目（实际上是一个互动的实地考察）的角度来看，这篇综述旨在找出一些关键问题和基本方法——既询问现有的学术和理论文献，又借鉴关注（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？（相反，音乐差异如何强化文化差异？）*如何进一步发展这方面的潜能？艺术团体和教育机构在其中可扮演什么角色？组织之间如何更好地互动？*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联系方面的影响是什么？*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，两者又如何相互加强？*以上问题的答案在多大程度上与其他少数民族社区以及对多元文化主义的更广泛理解相关？在这次调查中，我们将与艺术发展机构合作，通过结构化访谈和工作坊的方式进行。我们将分享我们的各种专业知识，目的是进一步制定战略，以影响或更好地与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建立联系。除了文献综述外，我们的产出将包括会议报告、至少两篇同行评议的文章，以及我们自己的高等教育机构、社区和艺术组织之间未来合作的行动计划。

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.

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

'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.