Culturally diverse music creation as a prototype for effective intercultural collaboration in health care

Abstract

In mid-2018, the authors[1] were contracted by the YYZ Foundation[2] to create a new collection of intercultural recordings designed to support palliative care patients and their caregivers. At the onset of this project, a commitment was made to not only create the musical recordings but also a pre-production and research process that would foster an equitable and meaningful intercultural collaboration. It is this process that will be explored in detail in this paper. The authors propose that this process could help to inspire further equitable and inclusive intercultural collaborative practices in both musical and non-musical settings such as health care as several aspects of this collaborative process may be useful for other initiatives that require cultural sensitivity and intercultural collaboration. 

[1] Names have been redacted for the purposes of submission to the journal, names will be put back in for final published version.

[2] Names have been redacted for the purposes of submission to the journal, names will be put back in for final published version.