The objective of this article is to examine how young people have engaged in a Kurdish cultural association in Stockholm, Sweden, making their ethnic heritage socially relevant through dance and music. It stresses the importance of taking people’s complex life-worlds into account, to avoid simplified connections between their performance of expressive cultural forms and their everyday lives. The fieldwork consisted of participant observations and semi-structured interviews. The first analysis concerns how the members relate dancing to Kurdish music to memories and life experiences. The second analysis focuses on the multi-modal qualities of music and dance as key-symbols, and the embodiment of ethnic belonging. The third concentrates on the...
This thesis concerns theories of identity formation and feeling of belonging amongst people in Swede...
The paper presents the findings of an ethnographic study of five Turkish music choirsfrom Hamburg fr...
This article examines the politics of cultural production in the Kurdish diaspora in Berlin and Stoc...
The objective of this article is to examine how young people have engaged in a Kurdish cultural asso...
The objective of this article is to examine how young people have engaged in a Kurdish cultural asso...
In many countries, multicultural citizenship has run into difficulties. The relation between immigra...
The aim of this article is to investigate participants’ engagement in music activities in ethnic-bas...
The thesis is unraveling a wealth of meaning in a widespread phenomenon amongst Kurds in Turkey; fol...
This article discusses the complex meaning of ethnicity and identity in the multicultural society of...
This article addresses the organisation of this growing social and cultural diversity in Sweden and ...
Interrogating the close connection between expressive culture and ethnic identity, this article exam...
Oral culture constitutes an aspect of social memory. Especially in the societies where written cultu...
This thesis is an ethnographic study of Kurdish political music at three cultural centers in Istanbu...
The purpose of this paper is to study the processes of identity and feelings of connectedness among ...
This article takes its point of departure in Maurice Halbwachs’ notion of collective memory, adding ...
This thesis concerns theories of identity formation and feeling of belonging amongst people in Swede...
The paper presents the findings of an ethnographic study of five Turkish music choirsfrom Hamburg fr...
This article examines the politics of cultural production in the Kurdish diaspora in Berlin and Stoc...
The objective of this article is to examine how young people have engaged in a Kurdish cultural asso...
The objective of this article is to examine how young people have engaged in a Kurdish cultural asso...
In many countries, multicultural citizenship has run into difficulties. The relation between immigra...
The aim of this article is to investigate participants’ engagement in music activities in ethnic-bas...
The thesis is unraveling a wealth of meaning in a widespread phenomenon amongst Kurds in Turkey; fol...
This article discusses the complex meaning of ethnicity and identity in the multicultural society of...
This article addresses the organisation of this growing social and cultural diversity in Sweden and ...
Interrogating the close connection between expressive culture and ethnic identity, this article exam...
Oral culture constitutes an aspect of social memory. Especially in the societies where written cultu...
This thesis is an ethnographic study of Kurdish political music at three cultural centers in Istanbu...
The purpose of this paper is to study the processes of identity and feelings of connectedness among ...
This article takes its point of departure in Maurice Halbwachs’ notion of collective memory, adding ...
This thesis concerns theories of identity formation and feeling of belonging amongst people in Swede...
The paper presents the findings of an ethnographic study of five Turkish music choirsfrom Hamburg fr...
This article examines the politics of cultural production in the Kurdish diaspora in Berlin and Stoc...