Listening to complexity. Reimagining diverse educational contexts moving from sound and listening

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss some theoretical issues concerning the role that sound studies can play in the field of intercultural education research, with special reference to research in socio-culturally complex educational contexts.
In the first two paragraphs, the paper will briefly introduce the field of sound studies, focusing on the connection between acoustemology and non-essentialist approaches to intercultural-education research.
In the following two paragraphs, the paper will then go on to suggest that anthropological analyses of the circulation of mediated forms of music and of the social mediation role of music itself, can concur to intersectional analysis of diverse educational contexts.
Finally, in the last paragraphs, the paper will set out suggestions on how hybridized music practices can help re-imagining contemporary diverse educational contexts.