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The study describes and analyzes the use of indigenous music in the healing rituals of the syncretic Twelve Apostles Church in Ghana and shamanism in Finland. In dealing with the main question of how indigenous music should ...

This research investigates how being in the wilderness affects group improvisation and in which ways the wilderness can be a potential learning environment in the education of global musicians. It starts by constructing a ...

Finding the balance between working collaboratively as part of a community, and exploring one’s own, individual creative instincts and abilities can be difficult in artistic and educational settings. Could the arts be a ...

This master’s thesis investigates and interprets locally produced music and particular music traditions of the world that have strong aesthetics and characteristic sounds. Through the concepts of music ecology, music ...

Centuries old gusle practice in Serbia preserved valuable sonic and cultural heritage, centred mainly on the performance of the epic poetry, but also including contemporary topics and changes to an extent. Lullabies have ...

In this arts-based research I draw on the approaches of autoethnography and artistic research to uncover findings emerging from my artistic and pedagogical navigation through traditional and contemporary folk and global ...

In this artistic research, I investigate the personal and interpersonal abilities of a musician in intercultural musical collaborations. The body of this research is my field trip to Colombia and two different artistic ...

This written work is an artistic study, that looks into the emerging culture of Ecstatic Dance, which started in Hawaii in 2000 and mixes free-form movement, community building, and a wide range of music. The focus is on ...