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Music and Tradition: From Native to Adopted Land Through the Refugee Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Adelaida Reyes Schramm
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There are now over 14 million refugees worldwide,1 “a staggering mass larger than the population of most of the countries of the world” (Smyser 1987: 3). Assuming that music is part of the cultural life of these populations, do they—as refugees and as a group distinct from other migrants—qualify for ethnomusicological attention? This is the question that this paper intends to address.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 21 , 1989 , pp. 25 - 35
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Copyright © 1989 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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This article is a revised version of a paper read at the 30th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music held in Schladming, Austria on July 23–30, 1989. I gratefully acknowledge the support of the Asian Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the research from which this paper draws. I am also deeply grateful for the help of Philippine friends and officials, especially Honorable and Mrs. Antonio Carpio, and Mr. Herman T. Laurel and Ms. Cita Potenciano of the Philippine Refugee Processing Center, and for the invaluable assistance of my Vietnamese informants without which this study would not have been possible.

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