Dossier / Dosier / Dossiê “Music and Interculturality” Antenor Ferreira Corrêa and Maria Westvall (Guest editors) Los trabajos publicados en esta revista están bajo la licencia Creative Commons Atribución- NoComercial 2.5 Argentina 194 Of Concepts and the Everyday: Multiculturality in Music Education in Germany Andreas Lehmann-Wermser, Hannover University of Music Drama and Media, Hannover, Germany andreas.lehmann-wermser@hmtm-hannover.de Abstract Multiculturality is equally an everyday phenomenon in most countries of the world and a theoretical construct that is relevant in many academic disciplines like sociology, cultural studies or pedagogy. In compulsory schools music seems to be a favored subject to learn about other musical cultures, to acquire appropriate attitudes about these cultures and to develop a deep understanding of the relationship between various cultures. However, neither concepts nor their practical implications can be separated from the history of immigration and specific theoretical traditions. Thus, it is useful to take on a specific perspective, in this case a German (or Western European) one. Hence, this paper tries to relate theoretical concepts that have been developed in Germany in the past to the specific phases of migration during the last 75 years. It is argued that therein multiculturality is not the set relation between cultures that can be discerned from the outside but a process of people defining and redefining their culturality and cultural identity. Keywords: Multiculturality, immigration, culture, music education Sobre los conceptos y la vida cotidiana: la multiculturalidad en la educación musical de Alemania Resumen La multiculturalidad es tanto un fenómeno cotidiano en la mayoría de los países del mundo como constructo teórico relevante en muchas disciplinas académicas como la sociología, los estudios culturales o la pedagogía. En las escuelas obligatorias, la música parece ser un tema privilegiado para aprender sobre otras culturas musicales, adquirir actitudes apropiadas acerca de brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Revistas Científicas de Filo (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA - Universidad de Buenos...