Music Refuge

Forced migration has led to the creation of unique spaces where music is made, shared, and experienced. Charting over eight years of research, this book uncovers the musical lives of those seeking asylum and refuge in 'host' countries. In bridging migration studies and music education, this book moves away from victim narratives and instead offers an expanded understanding about the relationship between music, refuge, identity, belonging and, ultimately, hope.

Ailbhe Kenny is Associate Professor of Music Education at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. She is the author of Communities of Musical Practice and co-editor of Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord and Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night.

- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Music-Making and Asylum Seeking
- Interlude: A Broken Clarinet
- Interlude:A Concert Dress and Shoes
- 2. Seeking Asylum, Living Asylum
- Interlude: Change My Reality
- Interlude: Liberation in the Melodies
- 3. Why Music?
- Interlude: The Singing Barber
- Interlude: As If I Grew Wings
- 4. Belonging and Becoming with Music
- Interlude: Who is Madonna?
- Interlude: My Personal Playlist
- 5. Musical Spaces and (Dis)Placement
- Interlude: Beauty in the Struggle
- Interlude: Clear Without Words
- 6. Closing and Opening
- References
- Index