ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how music functions within the education provision and ethos of the Tibetan Children’s Village (TCV) school in Gopalpur as a means of preserving and building cultural identity. It aims to understand the significance of the educational and cultural ‘site’ in which music-making occurs, with its simultaneous existence as a place of residence also making it a home and sanctuary for refugee children. The chapter offers suggestions for the widening evolution of music-based projects based on the author's own perceptions of such localized musicking, in terms of both culture and space, and how future cohorts and delegates of the charity programme on which his students were enrolled may help support and lay foundations for such cross-cultural developments. It provides information on the educational developments for Tibetan refugee school children happening in Himachal Pradesh and how the music curriculum supports the contemporaneity of the Tibetan diaspora.
