Abstract

This chapter discusses the potential for intercultural dialogue and expression of interculturality provided by the music of two oral traditions closely associated with children, those represented by children’s playground singing games and lullabies. While pertaining to this potential for intercultural expression and exchange to occur on a general basis, the chapter outlines its enactment in relation to two contexts that were studied as part of an investigation into the musical lives of refugees and newly arrived immigrant children in Sydney, Australia, a city that is a final place of settlement for people from more than 100 birthplace nations.