Intercultural musicking: learning through klezmer. (4th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fay, Richard; Mawson, Daniel J.; Bithell, Caroline
• Is Part Of: Language & intercultural communication. Volume 22:Number 2(2022)
• Page Start: 204
• Page End: 220
• Publication Date: 2022-03-04
• Subjects: Heterophony -- intercultural musicking -- klezmer -- transmusicality -- world music ensemble performance; Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Intercultural communication -- Periodicals; 306.4405
• DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2022.2029467
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-8477

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article focuses on a particular arena of creative practice: music students' largely sonic experience of Otherness through world music ensemble performance of klezmer (music with its roots in the weddings and other social occasions of mostly Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews in eastern and central Europe). Having briefly introduced klezmer, we situate our university ensemble into the traditions for teaching/learning it. We then present our pedagogic framework which combines ethnomusicological and intercultural thinking. We conclude with observations on how the module enables both increased transmusicality (through experience of a musical Other) and increased intercultural awareness (through the cultural encounters generated through klezmer performance).