Jill M. Bystydzienski
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814799789
- eISBN:
- 9780814723197
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814799789.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This concluding chapter summarizes the major findings of this study and then explores the implications for intercultural understanding and accommodation more generally. Positing a link between ...
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This concluding chapter summarizes the major findings of this study and then explores the implications for intercultural understanding and accommodation more generally. Positing a link between interpersonal and structural levels of social behavior and interaction, this chapter argues that the study of achievement of cross-cultural understanding within couple partnerships offers insights to how successful accommodations may occur between different (potentially hostile and unequal) groups. Effective conflict resolution between groups may take place when each of the parties recognizes the boundaries between that which is and is not negotiable, what each group can retain, and what each needs to relinquish. As the United States becomes increasingly multicultural, conceiving of how differences can be negotiated and accommodated without loss and assimilation is crucial.Less
This concluding chapter summarizes the major findings of this study and then explores the implications for intercultural understanding and accommodation more generally. Positing a link between interpersonal and structural levels of social behavior and interaction, this chapter argues that the study of achievement of cross-cultural understanding within couple partnerships offers insights to how successful accommodations may occur between different (potentially hostile and unequal) groups. Effective conflict resolution between groups may take place when each of the parties recognizes the boundaries between that which is and is not negotiable, what each group can retain, and what each needs to relinquish. As the United States becomes increasingly multicultural, conceiving of how differences can be negotiated and accommodated without loss and assimilation is crucial.
Caroline Bithell
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199354542
- eISBN:
- 9780199354580
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199354542.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This book explores the history and significance of the natural voice movement and its culture of open-access community choirs, weekend workshops, and summer camps. Founded on the premise that ...
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This book explores the history and significance of the natural voice movement and its culture of open-access community choirs, weekend workshops, and summer camps. Founded on the premise that “everyone can sing”, the movement is distinguished from other choral movements by its emphasis on oral transmission and its eclectic repertoire of songs from across the globe. First, the book reveals how and why songs from non-Western and folk traditions inform the movement’s ideological, methodological, and ethical principles and contribute to the rewards—social, psychological, and existential, as well as musical—reported by participants. Second, it argues that the UK-based Natural Voice Practitioners’ Network, built on the pioneering work of English folksinger Frankie Armstrong, has become a major player in the democratisation of singing and represents a powerful force for community building and for facilitating intercultural understanding. Third, it suggests that the natural voice phenomenon poses a significant challenge to assumptions about musical competency and training that underpin music education in Britain and other Western societies. Among the book’s most striking revelations is the extent to which amateur and aspiring singers who are not musically literate, and who may belong to socially marginalised groups, become competent participants in a vibrant musical community and, in the process, find their voice metaphorically as well as literally. These trends are theorised in terms of the politics of participation, the transformative potential of performance, building social capital, the global village, and reclaiming the arts of celebration and conviviality.Less
This book explores the history and significance of the natural voice movement and its culture of open-access community choirs, weekend workshops, and summer camps. Founded on the premise that “everyone can sing”, the movement is distinguished from other choral movements by its emphasis on oral transmission and its eclectic repertoire of songs from across the globe. First, the book reveals how and why songs from non-Western and folk traditions inform the movement’s ideological, methodological, and ethical principles and contribute to the rewards—social, psychological, and existential, as well as musical—reported by participants. Second, it argues that the UK-based Natural Voice Practitioners’ Network, built on the pioneering work of English folksinger Frankie Armstrong, has become a major player in the democratisation of singing and represents a powerful force for community building and for facilitating intercultural understanding. Third, it suggests that the natural voice phenomenon poses a significant challenge to assumptions about musical competency and training that underpin music education in Britain and other Western societies. Among the book’s most striking revelations is the extent to which amateur and aspiring singers who are not musically literate, and who may belong to socially marginalised groups, become competent participants in a vibrant musical community and, in the process, find their voice metaphorically as well as literally. These trends are theorised in terms of the politics of participation, the transformative potential of performance, building social capital, the global village, and reclaiming the arts of celebration and conviviality.
Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Gavin Carfoot
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199393749
- eISBN:
- 9780199393770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199393749.003.0017
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition, Performing Practice/Studies
This chapter looks at how arts-based service learning with First Peoples can engender intercultural understanding, reconciliation, social justice, and artistic citizenship more broadly. The chapter ...
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This chapter looks at how arts-based service learning with First Peoples can engender intercultural understanding, reconciliation, social justice, and artistic citizenship more broadly. The chapter provides a definition and framework for arts-based service learning with First Peoples that builds on a vast body of international literature. It also builds on 7 years of arts-based service learning work with Australian Aboriginal artists and university students. These insights are underpinned by concepts of artistic citizenship. In particular, the chapter examines how the arts can work for the betterment of other people’s lives, as well as broader commitments toward social justice and an ethics of care.Less
This chapter looks at how arts-based service learning with First Peoples can engender intercultural understanding, reconciliation, social justice, and artistic citizenship more broadly. The chapter provides a definition and framework for arts-based service learning with First Peoples that builds on a vast body of international literature. It also builds on 7 years of arts-based service learning work with Australian Aboriginal artists and university students. These insights are underpinned by concepts of artistic citizenship. In particular, the chapter examines how the arts can work for the betterment of other people’s lives, as well as broader commitments toward social justice and an ethics of care.
Ahmed Rehana
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719087400
- eISBN:
- 9781781708972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719087400.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter considers a selection of post-9/11 autobiographical memoirs by young British Muslims: Ed Husain’s The Islamist (2007)Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock ...
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This chapter considers a selection of post-9/11 autobiographical memoirs by young British Muslims: Ed Husain’s The Islamist (2007)Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock ’n’ Roll (2007), Yasmin Hai’s The Making of Mr Hai’s Daughter: Becoming British (2008)Shelina Zahra Janmahomed’s Love in a Headscarf (2009) and Zaiba Malik’s We Are a Muslim, Please (2010). It considers how these narratives negotiate the weighty burden of representation that they carry as the reading public seeks ‘insider’ knowledge of the ‘authentic’ Muslim Other. Each memoir considers the role of religious faith and culture in the life of a young British Muslim; the rise in ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ among British Muslim youth; the place of politics in religion; the competing demands of secular modernity, mahalla and mosque; and the complex relationship between individual, family, community and nation. The chapter investigates the ways they negotiate these issues in their articulation of British Muslim selfhoods, and explores how far they intervene in Muslim–majority relations and mediate intercultural understanding in post-9/11 Britain.Less
This chapter considers a selection of post-9/11 autobiographical memoirs by young British Muslims: Ed Husain’s The Islamist (2007)Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock ’n’ Roll (2007), Yasmin Hai’s The Making of Mr Hai’s Daughter: Becoming British (2008)Shelina Zahra Janmahomed’s Love in a Headscarf (2009) and Zaiba Malik’s We Are a Muslim, Please (2010). It considers how these narratives negotiate the weighty burden of representation that they carry as the reading public seeks ‘insider’ knowledge of the ‘authentic’ Muslim Other. Each memoir considers the role of religious faith and culture in the life of a young British Muslim; the rise in ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ among British Muslim youth; the place of politics in religion; the competing demands of secular modernity, mahalla and mosque; and the complex relationship between individual, family, community and nation. The chapter investigates the ways they negotiate these issues in their articulation of British Muslim selfhoods, and explores how far they intervene in Muslim–majority relations and mediate intercultural understanding in post-9/11 Britain.
Ahmed Rehana
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719087400
- eISBN:
- 9781781708972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719087400.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The Conclusion argues that the Rushdie affair established, or at least embedded, the normative terms of conceptualising freedom of expression controversies, and that its influence on perceptions of ...
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The Conclusion argues that the Rushdie affair established, or at least embedded, the normative terms of conceptualising freedom of expression controversies, and that its influence on perceptions of Islam and Muslims in Britain has been pervasive and persistent. It suggests, further, that the controversy has influenced the work of British writers of South Asian Muslim heritage, much of which is, in varying ways, hamstrung by a secular liberalism in its representation of subjects and communities of faith. Finally, the Conclusion offers a brief exploration of two Muslim writers who trace their heritage to other parts of the world, British Syrian Robin Yassin-Kassab and Sudanese Leila Aboulela, to suggest that their fiction does move beyond the binary of secular liberalism versus religious communalism that the book explores and seeks to deconstruct.Less
The Conclusion argues that the Rushdie affair established, or at least embedded, the normative terms of conceptualising freedom of expression controversies, and that its influence on perceptions of Islam and Muslims in Britain has been pervasive and persistent. It suggests, further, that the controversy has influenced the work of British writers of South Asian Muslim heritage, much of which is, in varying ways, hamstrung by a secular liberalism in its representation of subjects and communities of faith. Finally, the Conclusion offers a brief exploration of two Muslim writers who trace their heritage to other parts of the world, British Syrian Robin Yassin-Kassab and Sudanese Leila Aboulela, to suggest that their fiction does move beyond the binary of secular liberalism versus religious communalism that the book explores and seeks to deconstruct.
Ashwani Peetush and Jay Drydyk (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199453528
- eISBN:
- 9780199085361
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199453528.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
The question of how to arrive at a consensus on human rights norm in a diverse, pluralistic, and interconnected global environment is critical. This volume is a contribution to an intercultural ...
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The question of how to arrive at a consensus on human rights norm in a diverse, pluralistic, and interconnected global environment is critical. This volume is a contribution to an intercultural understanding of human rights in the context of India and its relationship to the West. The legitimacy of the global legal, economic, and political order is increasingly premised on the discourse of international human rights. Yet the United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights developed with little or no consultation from non-Western nations such as India. In response, there has developed an extensive literature and cross-cultural analysis of human rights in the areas of African, East-Asian, and Islamic studies, yet there is a comparative dearth of conceptual research relating to India. As problematically, there is an lacuna in the previous literature; it simply stops short at analyzing how Western understandings of human rights may be supported from within various non-Western cultural self-understandings; yet, surely, there is more to this issue. The chapters in this collection pioneer a distinct approach that takes such deliberation to a further level by examining what it is that the West itself may have to learn from various Indian articulations of human rights as well.Less
The question of how to arrive at a consensus on human rights norm in a diverse, pluralistic, and interconnected global environment is critical. This volume is a contribution to an intercultural understanding of human rights in the context of India and its relationship to the West. The legitimacy of the global legal, economic, and political order is increasingly premised on the discourse of international human rights. Yet the United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights developed with little or no consultation from non-Western nations such as India. In response, there has developed an extensive literature and cross-cultural analysis of human rights in the areas of African, East-Asian, and Islamic studies, yet there is a comparative dearth of conceptual research relating to India. As problematically, there is an lacuna in the previous literature; it simply stops short at analyzing how Western understandings of human rights may be supported from within various non-Western cultural self-understandings; yet, surely, there is more to this issue. The chapters in this collection pioneer a distinct approach that takes such deliberation to a further level by examining what it is that the West itself may have to learn from various Indian articulations of human rights as well.
