Sounding Diversities. Towards an Open Online Archive of Migrants’ Musical Lives

Abstract

Since 2014, in an area between Lombardy and Emilia Romagna, participatory action research about music and migration is being conducted. Music is a significant medium not only for shaping a new understanding of a transnational cultural identity, but also for intervening creatively to shape public opinion about cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity in contemporary Italy. Collecting data on musical practices and cultural exchanges, we are also organizing occasions of dissemination and intend to realize a database online.

Keywords

• migration
• dissemination
• open access archives
• groupsourcing
• super-diversity