ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on forms and contexts of musical performance as incited by migration processes and experiences. It addresses questions of social relations and emotional or political effects while raising awareness for changes and challenges of migration and inclusion processes. The analysis of musical performance in such mobile contexts potentially unpacks the sounds, cultural meanings, and identity-constructing moments of performance and the roles of performers, participants, observers, organizers, and audiences, along with the (political) voices they create. Therefore, as political performative discourse, musical dramaturgy of migration and displacement frequently (re)situates notions of "the Other" within complex understandings of perceived heterogeneity and homogeneity. Such resonances are the outcomes of performativity, with the potential to influence broader conceptions of flight and migration. By non-performative, however, Ahmed not only refers to words that do not do anything, she also refers to words that are used instead of doing something.
