Open AccessThe Role of Music and Allied Arts in Public Writings on Cultural Diversity: “People of Sri Lanka”
Author(s) -
Gisa Jähnichen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asian-european music research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2701-2689
pISSN - 2625-378X
DOI - 10.30819/aemr.6-7
Subject(s) - sri lanka , the arts , diversity (politics) , context (archaeology) , presentation (obstetrics) , cultural diversity , christian ministry , work (physics) , political science , ministry of foreign affairs , public relations , sociology , social science , media studies , history , south asia , anthropology , medicine , public administration , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , archaeology , radiology
The Sri Lankan Ministry of National Coexistence, Dialogue, and Official Languages published the work “People of Sri Lanka” in 2017. In this comprehensive publication, 21 invited Sri Lankan scholars introduced 19 different people’s groups to public readers in English, mainly targeted at a growing number of foreign visitors in need of understanding the cultural diversity Sri Lanka has to offer.This paper will observe the presentation of these different groups of people, the role music and allied arts play in this context. Considering the non-scholarly design of the publication, a discussion of the role of music and allied arts has to be supplemented through additional analyses based on sources mentioned by the 21 participating scholars and their fragmented application of available knowledge.In result, this paper might help improve the way facts about groups of people, the way of grouping people, and the way of presenting these groupings are displayed to the world beyond South Asia. This fieldwork and literature guided investigation should also lead to suggestions for ethical principles in teaching and presenting of culturally different music practices within Sri Lanka, thus adding an example for other case studies.