Intercultural Musicking -- Portraits and Narratives of Klezmer Ensemble Performance

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Title: Intercultural Musicking -- Portraits and Narratives of Klezmer Ensemble Performance
Language: English
Authors: Richard Fay, Zhuo Min Huang
Source: Intercultural Communication Education. 2025 8(2).
Availability: Castledown Publishers. Ground Level, 470 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, 3004, Australia. Tel: 646-520-0676; e-mail: contact@castledown.com; Web site: https://castledown.online/journals/ice/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 13
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Music Education, Cultural Awareness, Music Activities, Alumni, Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Jews, Visualization, Freehand Drawing, Personal Narratives, College Students, Foreign Countries
Geographic Terms: United Kingdom (Manchester)
ISSN: 2209-1041
Abstract: This article focuses on one example of intercultural musicking (IcM) -- when mostly non-Jewish music students experience unfamiliar methods to learn to perform klezmer which for most of them is an unfamiliar music culture - and the value later attached to this experience. We briefly introduce "klezmer" as a music culture and our teaching of it. We then describe the combination of visual and narrative methods -- also unfamiliar to participants -- which we used to explore former students' experience of performing klezmer. We discuss illustrative data from these ensemble alumni. We review our learning from this alumni-based practice-evaluation study regarding student development of transmusicality and intercultural personhood. We conclude with our insights into the use of visual and narrative methods in exploring the value of intercultural music education.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2026
Accession Number: EJ1491356
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:This article focuses on one example of intercultural musicking (IcM) -- when mostly non-Jewish music students experience unfamiliar methods to learn to perform klezmer which for most of them is an unfamiliar music culture - and the value later attached to this experience. We briefly introduce "klezmer" as a music culture and our teaching of it. We then describe the combination of visual and narrative methods -- also unfamiliar to participants -- which we used to explore former students' experience of performing klezmer. We discuss illustrative data from these ensemble alumni. We review our learning from this alumni-based practice-evaluation study regarding student development of transmusicality and intercultural personhood. We conclude with our insights into the use of visual and narrative methods in exploring the value of intercultural music education.
ISSN:2209-1041