Empowerment through the artssoundscapes as strategies in music education

Resumen

The focus of this paper is empowerment through art and it is centred on a group of primary school pupils of Roma ethnicity who find themselves in a position of serious vulnerability. An interdisciplinary project was carried out with these students through approximately an entire academic year. The complexity of the project leads us to a discussion of resources and goals on different levels. The project not only involved the creation of some resources related to the gathering of sound material, sound experimentation and the creation of soundscapes, but also pursued a more ambitious aim, that of setting the basis for students’ empowerment which ultimately led us to develop more complex strategies. Artistic activity (sound and visual) is analysed here not only as a means of attaining certain musical goals but also as a means of empowering and strengthening identity. To this end, and as will be mentioned later, the works created formed part of an international exhibition and were later published in a catalogue edited by InSea. We shall refer to the above-mentioned points in the following section