The Role of Smartphones in Stregoni’s Improvised Music Workshops for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Author(s):
Nico Mangifesta
Publication Year:
2019
Type:
journal article
Journal/Book Title
Contemporary Music Review
Publisher
Editor(s):
Pages:
521-525
Volume:
38
Issue:
5
Abstract:
Under the name Stregoni, Gianluca Taraborelli and Marco Bernacchia have been organising workshop-concerts involving more than two thousand economic migrants, asylum seekers and refugees (from Africa, Syria, Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent) who are hosted in reception centres and camps. This non-institutional project explores a way to promote intercultural integration through the practice of improvised music in Italy and Europe. Sampling the music that refugee and asylum seekers usually listen to on their smartphones, the two Italian musicians create soundscapes to improvise together in a concert. Stregoni represents an attempt to understand what is happening within and outside the borders of the EU, while providing an opportunity to promote communal spaces and experiences in the field of intercultural integration with the objective of letting migrants express their own ‘sonic citizenship’.
Citation (Chicago Author-Date):
Mangifesta, Nico. 2019. “The Role of Smartphones in Stregoni’s Improvised Music Workshops for Asylum Seekers and Refugees.” Contemporary Music Review 38 (5): 521–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2019.1684066.