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Music Bridge, Building New Audiences Through Cultural Exchange (2020)

Buruk Kardelen
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The formal concert format has been used for centuries as a means of presenting music to audiences both public and private. Various conventions have developed over the years concerning best practices of selecting repertoire and ordering pieces. While music concerts have been a mainstay in the music industry as a commercial vehicle for generating revenues for some time now, more recently the practice of providing concerts for free or at low cost has emerged as an important form of social outreach. In contrast to traditional commercial concerts, outreach presentations demand unique programming practices in order to achieve their unique goals. During my work with NGOs in countries such as Chile, Jamaica and the Netherlands I have seen the power of outreach programs to foster cultural exchange between peoples of different backgrounds, an effect that I consider profoundly valuable and one of the most powerful that music can offer as a means of driving social change. Through my initiative Music Bridge I work to induce such social change in my city of residence in the Netherlands; The Hague. Our work has so far focused on the Turkish community in The Hague. I myself was born and raised in Turkey, allowing me a level of entree and insight into that community via shared language, cultural understanding and identity. Through my programming and marketing practices, I aim to create an environment of inclusiveness and recognition, as well as to offer a path towards understanding and exchange with mainstream Dutch culture.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsMusic in Public Space, Cultural Exchange, Performance, Concert
date07/12/2018
published19/08/2020
last modified19/08/2020
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightKardelen Buruk
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/527096/527097
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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