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Adapt to better adopt: Ethnography in music education centres of Venezuela and Portugal
Authors: Sarrouy, Alix Didier
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This article is based on ethnography done in two research fields: núcleo Santa Rosa de Agua, from El Sistema, in Venezuela; and núcleo Miguel Torga, from Orquestra Geração, in Portugal. A núcleo is the basic unity of these large socio-educational programs, in which symphonic music is a tool for education in socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts. We focus on “mediations” (Hennion, 2007; Latour, 2006) implemented for the adaptation of the Venezuelan model to Portuguese reality, and for the achievement of the desired results in each núcleo. We show the complexity of intra and inter scales, from individual to institutional levels.