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Something like home (last edited: 2022)

Nemat Battah
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In this autoethnographic arts-based research, I return to the gift of music in my life and use it as the ultimate form of expression. I explore the process of navigating my own transgenerational trauma through composing and working with musicians from different musical and cultural backgrounds. Something like home explores the effect of finding common ground of love and compassion between my family members, especially those who have been navigating the traumas of war. I collected stories, memories, and impressions from my family’s childhood, and composed music that is inspired by them. In the first sections I discuss some concepts related to the transmittion of war trauma , and Bowen’s family system theory. Moreover, I relate to reasearches and projects that have been concerned with trauma art therapy and dealing with cultural trauma through music. As well as showing examples of composers who have been working with similar processes. In this project, I unfold my compositional process, and I present some possibilities of dealing with harmonizing traditional Arabic music, using partials from the harmonic series. I also share my process of collaborating with a lyric writer and a videographer who have helped me to bring the stories to life. Throughout the process I discovered that engaging with the stories unlocked new artistic outcomes and some unexpected artistic practices, expressions and results. Another important outcome of this project was the need for coming up with approaches that were used for transcultural music making and engaging the musicians with the stories but making sure to leave space for their own artistic identities to come across and shine. In the near future, I am hoping to use this project as a basis of my doctoral research project which will focus on memory expression through music by working with the diverse citizines of the finnish community.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsautoethnography, Musical Cultures, Palestine, arabic music, arabic, war trauma, Arabic music, vocalist, Oud, transcultural music making, musical expression, story telling through music, family therapy., War trauma, Storytelling
date05/03/2021
last modified07/08/2022
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightNemat Battah
licenseAll rights reserved
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1178357/1711338


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1581838 Shadi's story-thesis: concert Nemat Battah All rights reserved
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