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dc.contributor.authorLenette, C
dc.contributor.authorProcopis, B
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-16T14:45:04Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe literature on the social and emotional wellbeing of community musicians who engage with marginalised groups with complex mental health issues such as refugees, is relatively scarce. The Scattered People is a collective of volunteer musicians, music facilitators, and community development workers who engage, through musical activities, with asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced detention in Australia. This discussion focuses on key examples of social and emotional distress for community music facilitators through their interactions with asylum seekers. The community musicians explained the circumstances that had significant impacts on their wellbeing in terms of (i) their engagement with people in a detention centre, and (ii) the happiness and concerns linked to the asylum seekers they came across. Our paper presents the second author's reflections on two songs from the Scattered People repertoire, which were created and performed as the embodiment of these social and emotional impacts. Our aim is to ensure that this important aspect of community music, which has been thus far neglected, receives more attention.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 5 (2), pp. 55-68en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/29859
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.musicandartsinaction.net/index.php/maia/article/view/136en_GB
dc.rights© Music and Arts in Action 2016en_GB
dc.subjectCommunity musicen_GB
dc.subjectmusic facilitationen_GB
dc.subjectsocial and emotional healthen_GB
dc.subjectwellbeingen_GB
dc.subjectasylum seekers and refugeesen_GB
dc.title'They Change Us': The social and emotional impacts on music facilitators of engaging in music and singing with asylum seekersen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2017-10-16T14:45:04Z
dc.identifier.issn1754-7105
dc.descriptionThis is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the link in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalMusic and Arts in Actionen_GB


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