Managing Urban Cultural Complexity. Perspectives on the Place of the Arts in Conflict ****************************************************************************************** * Kjell Skyllstad ****************************************************************************************** Abstrakt Around the middle of the 1970s some musicians and music educators living in the Norwegian met to discuss ways to create better harmony between the nature and extent of music activi capital and the increasing cultural complexity of its population caused by a sharp increas This gave rise to the founding of the Intermusic center, a pioneer organization working to the population at large into living contact with the rich cultural heritage of the variega population. The competence earned through this pioneering work was later to form the profe launching the first official research undertaking evaluating the potential of a large scal program based on these resources. It was launched for the purpose of promoting better soci among students in city public schools with differing populations of immigrant students. Th to discuss the methodical issues connected with an evaluative research program of this nat as those connected with practical teaching. An historical overview of institutionalized mu music teaching in Norway precedes a description of the Resonant Community project itself a by an evaluative description of results and aftereffects. A concluding section discusses t multicultural education in Europe on the backdrop of the economic downturn and extremist a Klíčová slova multicultural education; citizenship education; immigration; conflict transformation; urba Článek v PDF ke stažení [ URL "LM-934-version1-skyllstad.pdf"] Kjell Skyllstad [ URL "LM-353.html "]