Music, Memory & Movement: Exploring Diasporic life through sound

About this episode

Rina Limoni reflects on her life experiences through music, exploring themes of displacement and identity.

In this episode, Rina Limoni, founder and host of the Diasporas Speaking Podcast will be interviewed by Arbër Qerka-Gashi, to reflect on her life experiences through music. Using songs and music as prompts to evoke memories, the conversation delves into how these songs and music have accompanied Rina throughout her journey of displacement and migration, through the difficulties of navigating identity formation, code switching in different environments and exploring the personal significance they hold and the ways they symbolise key moments in her life

People in this episode

Host: Rina Limoni

Guest: Arbër Qerka-Gashi

Topics covered

• music
• memory
• diasporic life
• identity formation
• migration
• displacement

Keywords

• music
• memory
• diaspora
• identity
• migration
• displacement
• sound

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