The Complexities of Intercultural Music Exchange

The Complexities of Intercultural Music Exchange: Ethno World as Cultural Change Agent addresses five key research questions raised by the Ethno Research white paper, Framing Ethno-World: Intercultural Music Exchange, Tradition, and Globalization (Mantie & Risk, 2020):

1. How do Organizers and Artistic Mentors describe their participation in the shaping of culture through music at local, regional, and global levels?
2. How do Organizers and Artistic Mentors introduce and/or facilitate discussions of cultural issues? To what extent do they feel obligated / responsible to do so? To what extent do they report doing so (and how)?
3. How do Ethno participants and Ethno World documents describe the impacts Ethno World has on surrounding communities?
4. In what ways and to what extent are Ethno participants actively engaged in traditional music?
5. What additional insights can be gleaned about Ethno participants through large-scale data mining and fine-grained discourse analyses of Ethnopia and other social media related to Ethno?