MIGRAÇÕES JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE MUSIC AND MIGRATION Edited by Maria de São José Côrte-Real OBSERVATÓRIO DA IMIGRAÇÃO, ACIDI I.P. 07 Introductory Note by the High Commissioner Rosário Farmhouse, High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue 09 Preface by the Journal Director Roberto Carneiro, Immigration Observatory Coordinator www.oi.acidi.gov.pt 11 Introduction: citizenship, music and migration Maria de São José Côrte-Real, Editor of the MIGRAÇÕES Journal of the Portuguese Immigration Special Issue on Music and Migration Observatory N.º 7, October 2010 27 I. RESEARCH Director: Roberto Carneiro Editorial Coordination: Catarina Reis Oliveira 29 Music as identity marker: Editor of this Special Issue: individual vs collective Maria de São José Côrte-Real Dan Lundberg Contributors to this Special Issue: Alexei Eremine, Ana Fernandes Ngom, Bart 45 From South to South: Indo-Pakistani diaspora Vanspauwen, Carla Soares Barbosa, Carlos Martins, Dan Lundberg, Dieter Christensen, and recent cultural practices in Spain Godelieve Meersschaert, Gustavo Roriz, Isabel Sílvia Martínez Elvas, J.A. Fernandes Dias, Jean-Michel Lafleur, João Jorge, John Baily, Jorge Castro Ribeiro, Jorge de La Barre, Jorge Murteira, Júlio Leitão, 57 Proud to be a Goan: colonial memories, Lídia Fernandes, Luisiane Ramalho, Mafalda Silva Rego, Marcello Sorce-Keller, Marco Martiniello, post-colonial identities and music Maria da Luz Fragoso Costa, Maria de São José Susana Sardo Côrte-Real, Mark Naison, Miguel Magalhães, Paula Nascimento, Sílvia Martinez, Susana Sardo, Ursula Hemetek 73 Revising citizenship: migration and fado in Editorial Assistant: Cláudia Pires the play of identities in the United States Maria de São José Côrte-Real Translation: Bart Vanspauwen, Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo Silva, Jorge de La Barre, Kevin Rose, Maria de São José Côrte-Real, Pedro Roxo, Susana 97 Migration, sodade and conciliation: Sardo Cape Verdean batuque practice in Portugal Graphic Design: António Souto Jorge Castro Ribeiro Title Ownership and Publication: ACIDI – Alto Comissariado para a Imigração e 115 Unexpected musical worlds of Vienna: Diálogo Intercultural, I.P. Rua Álvaro Coutinho, 14 Immigration and music 1150-025 Lisboa - Portugal Ursula Hemetek Frequency of Publication: Semestral 139 Music, city, ethnicity: exploring musical ISSN: 1646-8104 scenes in Lisbon Contact information: Jorge de La Barre Revista Migrações Rua Álvaro Coutinho, 14 1150-025 Lisboa – Portugal 157 Afgan music in Australia Email: [email protected] John Baily Circulation: 250 copies Printing: Fábrica das Letras Legal Deposit Classification: 274574/08 contents 2 Migrações _ #7 _ October 2010 3 177 Music as indicator of social adjustment: 253 OriAzul calling music talent throughout national patterns in Melbourne Africa Marcello Sorce-Keller João Jorge 187 Music and migration: Kurds in Berlin Dieter Christensen 257 III. NOTES AND OPINION ARTICLES 203 Migration and musical creativity in 259 The New Creoles and a Great 2010 Bronx Neighbourhoods Jorge Murteira Mark Naison 260 Music without borders in Viana do Castelo 213 Si se puede! Mafalda Silva Rego Music, musicians and the Latino vote at the 2008 US Presidential Election 262 Music, synergies and interculturality in Jean-Michel Lafleur and Marco Martiniello school in Loures Maria da Luz Fragoso Costa and Maria de São José Côrte-Real 231 II. GOOD PRACTICES 265 África Festival in Lisbon 233 Wanderings Paula Nascimento Godelieve Meersschaert 267 AFRICA.CONT: The place of music in the 237 Music and migration: the Gulbenkian project Next Future Program J.A. Fernandes Dias Miguel Magalhães 270 Being a musician: an excellent passport 239 Batoto Yetu through Lisbon, in New York Gustavo Roriz and Luanda Júlio Leitão 273 Orquestra Geração at the Escola Básica 2, 3 Miguel Torga in Amadora 241 The Moscow Piano Quartet in Cascais Maria Isabel Elvas Alexei Eremine 275 Intercultural dialogue at Escola Básica 243 Stories with Music... Music with Stories: Integrada do Carregado an inclusive project for audience training Luisiane Ramalho Carla Soares Barbosa 277 The ‘(r)evolution’ of Lusophone musics in 247 The Association Sons da Lusofonia the city of Lisbon Carlos Martins Bart Vanspauwen 249 The Putos qui ata Cria Project Ana Fernandes Ngom 251 The Program MigraSons Ana Fernandes Ngom and Lídia Fernandes índice índice 4 Music and Migration Migrações _ #7 _ October 2010 5 Rosário Farmhouse High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue Music is one of the most universal languages used by human beings. Over time, mu- sical expression has accompanied the migration of humanity across the planet, being present in all societies. Resulting from -individual or collective- creative processes, music reveals elements that characterise specific cultural identities of its creators, at the same time estab- lishing itself as a new identity element of the community that appropriates it. In this dynamic process of cultural enrichment, musical language is one of the most contagious ones and, therefore, constitutes a precious contribution to the consolida- tion of interculturality in contemporary societies. In this respect, the Gala «Together in Diversity», held by ACIDI in December 2008, was an example of participation of different musical expressions of various immigrant communities in Portugal in the construction of a new cultural reality that the country currently offers. The present issue of the Migrações Journal, dedicated to the topic of Music and Mi- gration, presents us with a set of articles that clarify the importance of music in the context of migratory communities, both as an identifier and as an element of com- munication and dialogue. We therefore express our gratitude to the authors that collaborated in it and espe- cially to Maria de São José Côrte-Real, that has ensured its scientific coordination. nota de abertura 6 Music and Migration Migrações _ #7 _ October 2010 7 Roberto Carneiro Immigration Observatory Coordinator The Migrações Journal is proud to present a “succulent” number 7, dedicated to the topic of Music and Migration. This issue, wisely coordinated by Maria de São José Côrte-Real, displays an amazing musical rhapsody. In fact, there is no lack of pleasant surprises and stunning diversity in this edition of the Journal. Featuring a remarkable number of researchers from ethno-anthropo- -musicology, the volume firstly offers us a true mosaic of research articles: from the Indo-Pakistani diaspora to Luso-identities in the USA, from colonial and postcolonial identities in Goan diaspora to Cape Verdean batuque, from Afghan music in Australia and Kurdish music in Berlin to music scenes in Vienna, Barcelona and Lisbon, from music as an indicator of social integration in Melbourne to Afro-American music in neighborhoods of the Bronx to music of political intervention in the American presi- dential elections of 2008. Secondly, respecting the common guideline of the Journal, the present thematic is- sue offers nine articles regarding good practices in which valuable associative, foun- dational and communal initiatives stand out. Finally, again following the Journal’s normal and established structure, the coordina- tor presents us with a set of nine opinion articles with a strong lusophone accent and celebrating its multiple expressivities in Portugal and in the African Continent. Music is undoubtedly a remarkable language of universal communication. In other words, it is an aesthetic communicator of particular cultures emphasizing genuinely universal elements. Without musical expressiveness, population movements and identity encounters would find themselves impoverished in revealing their authenticities and in the crea- tion of musical “hybrids” that constitute one of the most portentous emergences in the meeting of peoples and cultures. Should there be any doubt, there is fado, tango, samba or jazz to fully prove it. The issue Music and Migration thus is a remarkable tribute to the creative human genius that, tireless and irrepressible, fulfills the mandate of co-creator that it has been carrying since the extraordinary rise of the Homo Sapiens Sapiens in the up- ward chain of the mysterious work of creation. Migration and migrants are vehicles of spiritual nobility that are inherent to the hu- man condition and subject to the inviolability expressed in the sacred dignity of each and every human being, be they moving or sedentary. nota do director director do nota 8 Music and Migration Migrações _ #7 _ October 2010 9 This issue of the Migrações Journal translates that with a unique communicational Maria de São José Côrte-Real* strength. Editor of the Special Issue on Music and Migration Its coordinator, Maria de São José Côrte-Real, captures the essence of the topic in an exceptional way, and for that let us express our profound gratitude and recognition Introduction: citizenship, music and migration to her. Music and migration matter Music and migration turn out to be two connected and inseparable sides of the unique human pilgrimage through outer and inner worlds of existence. Human, as earth behaviour deserves respect and careful attention. Science already understood, policy will understand.1 The texts presented, from researchers of different Let us celebrate these two sides, integrally and with the veneration they deserve, at schools, musicians, cultural agents, teachers, graduate students, project leaders, a time in which the supreme materiality of selfish interest seems to want to make us interested listeners and travellers