Crossroads in Music : Tales from the MOVE project about musical education, culture and exchange

Abstract

Once a year a group of young musicians set out on a journey that will be quite unlike anything they have experienced before. Most of them will travel several thousand kilometers and partake in a culture that is vastly different from their own. The project they are partaking in is called MOVE (Musicians and Organizers VolunteersExchange) and is an international exchange with the aim of giving young musicians and organizers the opportunity to work with music and culture in a vastly different environment than their own, and thereby exchange competency, experiences and ideas. This thesis is agathering of narrativesfrom the MOVE project in Music Crossroads, Malawi, and the analyses of these. These narrativesand the analyses depict life in the MOVE project. The data and narrativesin this thesis is gathered through a five-weekfield work conducted in January –February 2018,in Lilongwe, Malawi.Supplementary methods include interviews, participant observation and Grounded theory.