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Applied Ethnomusicology in the Process of the Political Recognition of a Minority: A Case Study of the Austrian Roma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Ursula Hemetek
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Applied ethnomusicology has a special relevance for studies on music and minorities. What constitutes this relevance in particular cases was the focus of a plenary panel discussion at the 38th World Conference of the ICTM in Sheffield in 2005, which explored cultural, social, political, and economic issues pertinent to the musical life of minority groups within the context of a larger (majority) society. Panel participants addressed the topic from the perspective of their individual research fields and the different minority groups they have worked with: Adelaida Reyes provided the example of refugee camps, Stephen Wild of the Rom ceremony of Australian Aborigines, and John O'Connell of a Song for Peace by a Kurdish singer. The aim was to contribute to discourses on applied ethnomusicology in the light of theoretical and methodological insights gained through studies of music and minorities.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 38 , 2006 , pp. 35 - 57
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Copyright © 2006 By The International Council for Traditional Music

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