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2025-04-30
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Scholars habitually overlook music as communication, but individuals often use music to express their identity and build relationships (Turner & Tollison, 2021). Missionaries may identify with their missionary organization and with the corresponding faith of that organization while trying to connect with locals through music. Music is an opportunity to find or create forms of communication that provoke empathy and obligation between the missionary and the local (Carfoot, 2016). This study looks at the role of music as communication for missionaries in terms of identity, organizational identification, and culture. The researcher interviewed 22 missionaries about music in the mission field. Interviews were coded using Tracy’s (2020) phonetic approach which combines practical knowledge and wisdom moving between the data and the literature. Missionaries described music as a space for processing identity movement, organizational values, and cultural differences.
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Communications Studies