Musik, förändring och framtidsdrömmar : En kvalitativ studie av det sydafrikanska musikutbildningsprojektet, Acess Music Project

• Main Author: Yafele, Anki
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013) 2018
• Subjects: AMP Access Music Project; Arkwork for Art NPC; music education; NGO; social justice; South Africa; musikutbildning; frivilligorganisation; social rättvisa; Sydafrika; Cultural Studies; Kulturstudier
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67374

This study is an examination of how a music education that is run by a NGO, Non Governmental Organisation, in South Africa works. The organisation Arkwork for Art NPC, and their artistic programme Access Music Project, AMP, based in Grahamstown in Eastern Cape province, works as an case study. This study shows what different opportunities and challenges are of the work with the project and describes who the young participants enrolled in the project are and how they experience the music education. Further more this work explore the relationship between music education and social justice. Information was gathered through qualitative semi-structured interviews with the participants and project founder and leadership of the project. Partly information also was gathered through unstructured observations. The result shows that Arkwork for Art is filling an important gap where the government lack resources to offer music education for youth in marginalised communities. The organisation struggle with many things, most difficult for them is to get stable funding. AMP have many big future plans and want for instance to change the curriculum of music education in the future. My examination shows that the participants are very satisfied to be a part of AMP and that the project has an important role in their lifes and the community where they are based.