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The contribution of arts for the transformation of the city is the result of a tension between
domination and resistance, in which the former is linked to commodification and to cities’
competition and the latter to the reflexive, critical and disruptive impulses that seem to be
intrinsic to a wide array of contemporary art expressions. Hence, it becomes relevant to grasp
up to what extent artistic dynamics are connected to quarrels between the forces of the
market, political powers and the refusal of the neoliberal model. We would like to focus our
analysis in a Southern European metropolis: Lisbon and in the particular case of migrants.
Migrants are often economic but also culturally and spatially segregated in the cities where
they live, where market models have tended to be dominant and shape artistic spaces.
Migrants resist by drawing on origin countries’ cultural heritages and references. Music has
been a key artistic expression in this process, used both to recreate and remind the culture of
the past and the place where she/he came from and to affirm her/his identity in societies
where they are or feel marginalized. It has also been appropriated in some cases by cities
wishing to promote interculturality and multicultural environments. We develop the idea of
Borja (2011) about the importance of valuing original or reconstructed identity elements in
urban collectives, feelings of belonging, sense of places and collective memories in Cova da
Moura (Portugal) and contrast it with appropriations made by the dominant city model.
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Music Transformation of the city Contestation Periphery