Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music

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Ailbhe Kenny (Associate Professor of Music Education, Associate Professor of Music Education, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)

Music Refuge

Living Asylum through Music

Ailbhe Kenny (Associate Professor of Music Education, Associate Professor of Music Education, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)

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Oxford University Press Inc
02 December 2025

Music reviews & criticism; Western "classical" music; Techniques of music & music tutorials; Refugees & political asylum; Migration, immigration & emigration

Forced migration has led to the creation of unique spaces within varying contexts where music is made, shared, and experienced. Music Refuge charts over eight years of research to uncover the musical lives of those seeking asylum and refuge in 'host' countries. This book explores how migration, mobility, and emplacement become entangled through musical interactions, focusing on how people seeking asylum create musical spaces. Through music, asylum seekers discover alternate forms of identity that resist categorizations, nationalisms, monocultures, and fixed geographies. Moving away from refugee and asylum-seeking tropes that rely on narratives of victimhood, Music Refuge foregrounds agency and the claiming of space while living within and through asylum seeking systems. Ailbhe Kenny documents the voices of those seeking asylum within multi-sited contexts and frames their music making as spaces for

By: Ailbhe Kenny (Associate Professor of Music Education Associate Professor of Music Education Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 167mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9780197780138
ISBN 10: 019778013X
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 02 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ailbhe Kenny is Associate Professor of Music Education at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. She is the author of Communities of Musical Practice and co-editor of Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord and Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night.