Cohesive values of musical creation in the classroom: Intercultural research through Indonesian gamelan

Abstract

In increasingly multicultural societies, interculturality requires an educational commitment in values and attitudes of coexistence, respect, empathy and exchange. In this research, we ascertain the social potential of musical creation as a cooperative and intercultural tool in secondary education, using the Indonesian gamelan as a bridge between cultures. Through an action-based research, complemented by a focus group, we plan an educational design adapted to the needs of the sample, analyzing its viability in order to promote cohesive values, cultural exchange, technical-musical development and improvement of artistic self-concept, from a meaningful experience over time. Among the main results obtained we highlight the interdependence and collective commitment achieved, the rhythmic development of the group, the evolution towards attitudes prone to artistic expression and the perpetuation of the memory of the experience three and a half years later. Gamelan confirms its educational and intercultural potential, coinciding with previous researchers, in order to promote effective and accessible cooperative dynamics that contribute to overcoming the barriers of the prevailing eurocentrism, opening ears and understandings to other sounds and cultures, interrelating them at the same time with those understood as their own.