{"id":119,"date":"2023-09-28T12:11:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T11:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/theknowledge\/?p=119"},"modified":"2023-12-05T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T11:25:37","slug":"singing-as-response-and-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/theknowledge\/2023\/09\/28\/singing-as-response-and-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing as Response and Refuge\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr Jennifer Daniel<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Friday 15 September 2023, Manchester was shaken by the knife murder<\/a> of 14-year-old\u00a0Nathaniel Shani in Harpurhey, an area of high social deprivation three miles north of the city centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the following Friday the school attended by Nathaniel had launched a lunchtime concert with pupils and ex-pupils performing songs chosen for Nathaniel, facilitated and accompanied by staff from the school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This swift action and creative response to the grief of students and staff was possible owing to an ongoing programme of individual singing offered to pupils which acts often as a kind of wellness intervention in an area of high immigration, deprivation and experienced trauma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June this year, pupils had sung at a\u00a0school\u00a0event for Refugee Week<\/a>\u00a0with input and attendance by Metro Mayor Andy Burnham. Here\u00a0a pupil told\u00a0her\u00a0story\u00a0of forced migration and escape from a harrowing situation, and her\u00a0arrival in Manchester. Two\u00a0more pupils\u00a0reflected poignantly on the story in a performance of Sarah Bareilles\u2019s\u00a0song\u00a0A\u00a0Safe Place To\u00a0Land<\/em>, bringing community together in a celebration of sanctuary, promoting understanding and the chance to be heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the climate of such interactions and interventions, where individual singing has been built as a tradition for refuge and for expression, pupils and staff were able to mobilise in a time of grief and come together to sing for Nathaniel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to the tragedy on 15 September, I had begun research plans in partnership with teachers and leaders at the school to investigate the nature of the programme of individual singing in place and its function as social intervention, including migrant youth; for belonging, sharing, expression and release. In response to the grief of a community embodied in creative action, we hope to resume these plans with an ethnographic study of the programme of singing in place at the school, and its social and civic outcomes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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