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Something like home (last edited: 2025)

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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.

type	research exposition
keywords	autoethnography, 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
date	05/03/2021
last modified	15/09/2025
status	in progress
share status	public
copyright	Nemat Battah
license	All rights reserved
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1178357/1711338

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name	Baba's story
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name	Emran Battah,diary entry 1
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name	Emran's Diary page 2
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name	Diary entry page 3
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name	From Ain Karem to Amman-First sketch. P1
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name	From Ain Karem to Amman-First sketch. P2
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name	From Ain Karem to Amman, Last scene
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name	From Ain Karem to Amman, Last scene
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name	Shadi's story-thesis: concert
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name	A sketch of the compositional process-Dive
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name	Impressions of Deir Al-Balah-Mama's handwritten notes
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name	wooden shoes scene
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name	A prayer to Randa-high part
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name	Frame painting
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name	Laura and Ani/ A prayer to Randa
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