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This course explores the integration of migrant musicians through an interdisciplinary lens. Drawing on research based on cases across the globe, students will examine how musical creativity could be directly related to the bolstering or the withdrawal of integration of migrant musicians in a new cultural environment. Through a series of engaging and interactive sessions, this course explores the interwoven dynamics of diversity, inclusion and creativity.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course explores the integration of migrant musicians through an interdisciplinary lens. Drawing on past and current studies encompassing psychoanalysis, ethnomusicology, and migration studies, students will examine how creativity becomes a means of both integration and the challenges to their sense of identity in a new cultural environment, or even a reflection of suppressions and isolations. The course delves into the complexities of assimilation, multiculturalism, migration identity, power dynamics, and musical creativity, with a focus on the UK but also covering other places. By analysing the experiences of these musicians, students will gain valuable insights into the connections between creativity, social integration, and individual subjectivity. Through a series of engaging and interactive sessions, this course offers a unique opportunity to explore the relationships between diversity, inclusion (as well as exclusion) and creativity.
The course explores the complexities of different modes of assimilation, integration, and inclusion through the lens of a variety of musicians with diverse backgrounds (expat, migrant, diasporic, second generation, refugee, asylum seeker) based in the UK and elsewhere.
Students will investigate how the musicians' creative processes contribute to their sense of belonging (or restrain it) in the contexts of their destinations, alongside debates surrounding authenticity and cultural identity.
The course also delves deeper into the sense of belonging among migrants due to diverse and complex motives of their migrations. Students will explore the ways voluntary
migration and a desire for integration into domestic lifestyles impact their musical expressions and individual subjectivities.
Power, meanings, and socio-cultural structures and subjectivity/identity, introduce students to the core concepts underpinning the course so they better understand how musical structures are also shaped by socio-cultural encounters as well as psychological drives. The relationship between migration experiences and identity is explored, emphasising music as a unique vehicle for the creation of social meaning and understanding of such dynamics.
Music as a social practice and musical creativity as a medium, explore the role of music in the integration process and how it serves as a means for migrant musicians to relate to and/or communicate with their new environment.
Looking into the links between creativity and fantasy, creativity and otherness, and creativity and collaboration, shed light on how creativity drives artistic expressions, offering students some concluding deeper remarks on the intersection between creativity, migration, and the formation of subjectivities while reflecting on the previous themes.
Topics covered on the course will include:
Creativity and Collaboration: Building Inclusive Musical Communities
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | To understand the intersections between ethnomusicology, migration studies, and psychoanalysis in the study of migrant musicians' subjectivities. |
| Conceptual | Understand | To understand the concepts of assimilation, integration, and inclusion in relation to migrant musicians in the UK |
| Factual | Understand | To understand the demographics of music making and performance of migrant musicians in the UK |
| Procedural | Analyse | To be able to pinpoint the role of creativity in facilitating or hindering the integration of migrant musicians into a new social and cultural environment along with associated complexities and challe |
| Procedural | Apply | To write and speak clearly through theoretical frameworks to real-world examples of diasporic musicians in the UK. |
| Procedural | Apply | To learn and apply interdisciplinary approaches (ethnomusicology, migration studies, psychoanalysis) to explore the experiences of migrant musicians. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 60 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 40 | Feedback Weeks | 43 | |
| Feedback |
Students will be able to pick the topic for their essay from a series of questions provided, which will enable them to reflect on approaches learned throughout the course. The essay will also enable them to develop skills in academic writing. Feedback will be provided within three weeks of submission. |
Word Count | 5000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Analyse | To be able to pinpoint the role of creativity in facilitating or hindering the integration of migrant musicians into a new social and cultural environment along with associated complexities and challe |
| Procedural | Apply | To write and speak clearly through theoretical frameworks to real-world examples of diasporic musicians in the UK. |
| Procedural | Apply | To learn and apply interdisciplinary approaches (ethnomusicology, migration studies, psychoanalysis) to explore the experiences of migrant musicians. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 34,35 | Feedback Weeks | 39 | |
| Feedback |
Students will be tasked with delivering a 10min individual presentation, enabling them to develop research and oral communication skills. Presentations will be held in the final 2-3 weeks of the course in separate sessions outside of the regular seminars. A grade and feedback will be provided at the end of the course. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Analyse | To be able to pinpoint the role of creativity in facilitating or hindering the integration of migrant musicians into a new social and cultural environment along with associated complexities and challe |
| Procedural | Apply | To learn and apply interdisciplinary approaches (ethnomusicology, migration studies, psychoanalysis) to explore the experiences of migrant musicians. |
| Procedural | Apply | To write and speak clearly through theoretical frameworks to real-world examples of diasporic musicians in the UK. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Feedback will be provided towards within three weeks of submission. |
Word Count | 4000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Factual | Understand | To understand the demographics of music making and performance of migrant musicians in the UK |
| Conceptual | Understand | To understand the concepts of assimilation, integration, and inclusion in relation to migrant musicians in the UK |
| Conceptual | Understand | To understand the intersections between ethnomusicology, migration studies, and psychoanalysis in the study of migrant musicians' subjectivities. |
| Procedural | Analyse | To be able to pinpoint the role of creativity in facilitating or hindering the integration of migrant musicians into a new social and cultural environment along with associated complexities and challe |
| Procedural | Apply | To learn and apply interdisciplinary approaches (ethnomusicology, migration studies, psychoanalysis) to explore the experiences of migrant musicians. |
| Procedural | Apply | To write and speak clearly through theoretical frameworks to real-world examples of diasporic musicians in the UK. |
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