Conclusion

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Abstract This chapter brings the volume to a close with a discussion of some recent debates about multicultural performance in France in the aftermath of the Bataclan massacre in Paris on 13 November 2015. It discusses slam poet Marc Nammour’s “99” Project, ethnomusicologist Frédéric Deval’s “transcultural” programming at Royaumont Abbey, postcolonial debates about creole citizenship, and the death, at the Bataclan, of a young French North African musician, Kheireddine Sahbi—a student of andalusi music who died with his violin in his hands. Islam in Europe has sharpened debates about citizenship. Music, the chapter shows, is implicated and entangled in ways that bear on the emphases and critical angles of this book. The volume ends with a brief meditation on citizenship and music as craft.