Struggling for integration : universalist and separatist discourses within El Sistema Sweden

Bergman, Åsa,1972Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,University of Gothenburg,Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper,Department of Cultural Sciences (author)

This article focuses on the El Sistema programme, which started up in Sweden in 2010 with the objective to deal with segregation problems typical for Swedish urban areas. The purpose of the article is to examine how promoting integration through music and music education is constructed within El Sistema as a way to help children growing up in multi-ethnic suburbs participate in Swedish society. The empirical material used derives from two different ethnographic research studies conducted in Gothenburg and Malmö. The results show that integration is constructed through two antagonistic discourses competing for hegemony. In the first, the idea of integration is based on a rhetoric of similarities between people playing music together, a rhetoric drawing on the modernist idea of humans as universal and alike. In the second, integration is articulated through a rhetoric of differences related to cultural affiliation.

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Utbildningsvetenskap Pedagogik hsv//swe
SOCIAL SCIENCES Educational Sciences Pedagogy hsv//eng
HUMANIORA Konst hsv//swe
HUMANITIES Arts hsv//eng
discourse analysis
El Sistema Sweden
ethnography
integration
postcolonial theory
El Sistema Sweden; integration; postcolonial theory; ethnography; discourse analysis

Lindgren, Monica,1958Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,University of Gothenburg,Högskolan för scen och musik,Academy of Music and Drama(Swepub:gu)xlmonv (author)
Sæther, EvaLund University,Lunds universitet,Lärare (Musikhögskolan),Musikhögskolan i Malmö,Konstnärliga fakulteten,Teachers (Malmö Academy of Music),Malmö Academy of Music,Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts(Swepub:lu)mhm-esa (author)
University of GothenburgInstitutionen för kulturvetenskaper (creator_code:org_t)

In:Music Education Research: Informa UK Limited18:4, s. 364-3751461-38081469-9893

By the author/editor: Bergman, Åsa, 19 ...; Lindgren, Monica ...; Sæther, Eva

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