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In: ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture Midterm Conference: Culture and the Making of Worlds, October 2010
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 14, 2010 erstellt
Beschreibung:
This presentation derives from sociology of music studies together with the analysis of the immigration dynamics. More specifically we want to propose a research that explores the birth of a an international orchestra. The originality in studying this orchestra comes from it being made up by a group of immigrant musicians, each one of them completing and enriching the musical ensemble by playing their homeland typical instruments. We have analyzed the building up of an artists community made up of people with different professional background and heterogeneous livings and how they unified in a syncretistic way to create an orchestra territorially located in a Roman quarter renown for its demographic transformations. From a typically roman district, during the last few years it has become a residential and commercial area for immigrants (especially from China, Korea and Egypt); it has given birth to a huge immigrant community, very heterogeneous and constantly divided by conflicts between the different ethnic micro-communities, establishing a diversity inside the diversity. We have used a qualitative research method to investigate such dynamics (case studies), collecting “tranche de vie” and integrating them with some research and observation techniques derived from ethnography and from the Grounded Theory. Can the creation of a multiethnic orchestra be considered as an alternative model through an organizational process of resocialization, not by assimilating, but by redefining and rediscovering - in the heritage, identity and music varieties - the ancient relational and integrative functions of music, without giving up on its own identity?