Roles of Music-Making in the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation: A Case of International Students in Wrocław

• Authors: Emre Can Alptekin

Abstracts

EN

With the intensifying flow of academically motivated people between countries, the significance of research on cross-cultural adaptation increases. Although the problems and difficulties caused by cultural differences have been researched extensively, this research focused on a common practice among different cultures: participative music making in an intercultural context. Therefore, the current study explores how participative music-making shapes international students’ cross-cultural experiences in Wroclaw. For this purpose, the relevance between international students’ cross-cultural adaptation and music-making as a social activity in Poland is examined. The required data were gathered through in-depth interviews with six students from various countries who made music as a collective activity during their transnational accommodation. The collected data is analysed by the inductive coding approach to explore the commonalities in the international students’ experiences. Findings concluded that collective music making shapes music-maker students’ cross-cultural experiences by not merely helping them gain a specific social network but also contributing to their financial income and mood states, and finally, privileged behaviour by the host country members towards these students.

Keywords

EN

music-making; sociocultural adaptation; psychological adjustment; culture learning theory; social network; cross-cultural transition

• Publisher: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Oddział we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 15
• Pages: 21-32

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Emre Can Alptekin

• University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology

• https://orcid.org/0000000162541361

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34616/ajmp.2022.15.2

Biblioteka Nauki

2196932