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‘This is where she comes alive’: for ageing migrants, community choirs are more than music
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A feature article explores how community choirs near Fremantle, Australia provide meaningful social connection and cultural expression for ageing migrant communities, using Italian folk music traditions as a case study.
‘This is where she comes alive’: for ageing migrants, community choirs are more than music
Abby Murray
Every Friday morning in a community hall near Fremantle, something quietly extraordinary happens.
Chairs are arranged in a rough semicircle. Someone has brought a tray of biscotti from a recipe carried, unchanged, from Vasto, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. An organetto, a small button accordion common in southern Italian folk music, opens with a tarantella, a fast and joyful southern Italian dance tune. Before the first verse has ended, a dozen voices have joined. Some are strong. S
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