Foregrounding Mobility Rather than Belonging:A Conceptual Framework for Engaging with Music Shaped by Transnational Migration

Drawing on interdisciplinary research about the legacies of musicians who emigrated to Britain from Germany and Austria in the 1930s, this article considers the engagement in scholarship and musical practice with the work of composers and musicians who do not fit into traditional categories of national belonging because their lives and careers were shaped by migration, displacement, and transnational mobility. Based on our study of a well-documented and influential group of migrant musicians through historical musicological research, artistic research (reflective performance), and perspectives from human geography, we propose a conceptual shift from immobility to mobility (sometimes “mobilities” and “(im)mobilities”) in order to unlock and reevaluate the often hidden and marginalized legacies and repertoires of migrant musicians, especially those relating to their post-migratory activities. We reference the work of organizations dedicated to the reclamation of the musical contributions of this group of migrant musicians and consider how they have dealt with questions of mobility and belonging. We also examine a recent shift in musicology which has begun to enact a move toward embracing mobility as normal rather than pathological and discuss the nature, history and implications of the “New Mobilities Paradigm” (Sheller and Urry, “The New Mobilities Paradigm”) in detail, drawing on a wide range of research that has direct bearings on the subject of music and migration, especially given the inherent mobility of music as an art form. We then consider how enacting the proposed conceptual shift can influence musical practice, reflecting on recent performances of English songs by Karl Rankl (1898–1968), written in Oxford in 1942/43, and highlighting the need for connecting artistic with ethical and societal considerations in order to assess value and facilitate successful advocacy

Mapping Musical Mobilities:Challenging Musical Nationalism Through Mobility and Migration

Often, music – particularly classical music – has been viewed in some quarters as a product of particular national cultures, with little regard paid to the ways in which mobile phenomena can contribute to its production, whether in the form of mobile people, objects, or concepts. This paper turns to notions of mobility as a means of exploring how musical cultures can be animated. It explores, too, the possibilities of particular forms of ‘mapping’ as a way to retain, but also rethink, the spatial specificity so emphatically signalled in some musical tradition-claiming, while simultaneously avoiding the excessive valorisation of mobility that can characterise many musical careers as endlessly nomadic or socially detached. We begin by discussing the question of music and nationalism in more detail, particularly as it has been conceived of within musicology, ethnomusicology, and nationalism studies. In so doing, we aim to establish a sense of the national framing and fixing through which (classical) music has hitherto been understood in some contexts. This leads naturally onto an attendant discussion of the mobility of music, in which we will outline some of the nascent material on this topic

Faustische Sichten - Roddy Bell, Oslo : Zeichnung und Installation / Hrsg.: ACC Galerie Weimar. [Übers.: Norbert Meyn]

FAUSTISCHE SICHTEN - RODDY BELL, OSLO : ZEICHNUNG UND INSTALLATION / HRSG.: ACC GALERIE WEIMAR. [ÜBERS.: NORBERT MEYN] Faustische Sichten - Roddy Bell, Oslo : Zeichnung und Installation / Hrsg.: ACC Galerie Weimar. [Übers.: Norbert Meyn] (1) Einband (1) Titelseite (3) Text / Illustrationen (4

Impact of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor on lung function, nutritional status, pulmonary exacerbation frequency and sweat chloride in people with cystic fibrosis: real-world evidence from the German CF RegistryResearch in context

Summary: Background: Treatment with elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI) improves multiple clinical outcomes in people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) with at least one F508del allele. This study evaluated the real-world impact of ETI on lung function, nutritional status, pulmonary exacerbation frequency, and sweat chloride concentrations in a large group of pwCF. Methods: This observational cohort study used data from the German CF Registry for pwCF who received ETI therapy and were followed up for a period of 12 months. Findings: The study included 2645 pwCF from 67 centres in Germany (mean age 28.0 ± 11.5 years). Over the first year after ETI was initiated, percent predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 s (ppFEV1) increased by 11.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] 10.8–11.8, p < 0.0001), body mass index (BMI) z-score increased by 0.3 (95% CI 0.3–0.4, p < 0.0001) in individuals aged 12 to <18 years and BMI in adults increased by 1.4 kg/m2 (95% CI 1.3–1.4, p < 0.0001), pulmonary exacerbations decreased by 75.9% (p < 0.0001) and mean sweat chloride concentration decreased by 50.9 mmol/L (95% CI –52.6, −49.3, p < 0.0001). Improvements in ppFEV1 over the first year of therapy were greater in pwCF who had not previously received cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulator therapy (12.6% [95% CI 11.9–13.4] vs. 9.7% [95% CI 9.0–10.5] in those with prior CFTR modulator treatment. Interpretation: These real-world data are consistent with the findings of randomised clinical trials, and support the use of ETI as a highly effective treatment option for pwCF who have at least one F508del allele. Funding: None