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This dissertation addresses ongoing and future developments in Slovenian musicking in a South-East Queensland community, investigating community building as it facilitates and is facilitated by sociomusical cultures. Established and emergent fields of knowledge cultivate new understandings relevant to diasporic music studies, which are especially pertinent to ongoing discussions surrounding Australian interculturalism, and culture exploration, affirmation, and celebration between home and host lands. This research has been formed with a view to contributing both to theoretical scholarship, and to efforts to explore, affirm, and celebrate diasporic identities and cultures within diasporas. It focusses on community building, contributing new knowledge to understanding the term by exploring data generated within the case study diasporic community through observational journals, interviews, and focus group methods in the context of real events produced by or for a South-East Queensland Slovenian community. Histories and literature from the South-East Queensland Slovenian community, together with the author's own Slovenian background, are corroborated to form the foundation of this study. Emerging strongly from this research is the understanding that musicking involves people, community, and sociocultural relationships doing music across diverse modes of participation. Some of these modes and roles include performing and listening, music event management and attendance as peripheral participation, and the role of the community member within the community, among other contexts. While each member musics in these situations – regardless of role in or mode of participation – they are also doing the practice of community building in their own sociocultural context. A diasporic community like that of the South-East Queensland Slovenian community provides an opportunity to observe the way music explores, affirms, and celebrates sociomusical cultures and identities as it supports, facilitates, and is facilitated by community building. |
