| Summary: | This chapter discusses children’s musical responses to war-related conflict as they have experienced it within their lives, through direct exposure to war; forced migration and displacement as a result of war; or through intergenerationally memorialized experiences of conflict and displacement. Utilizing examples from a study of refugee children and immigrant children in the resettlement context of Sydney, Australia, the chapter explores how the music children learn early in life can provide ways for them to express the ongoing disorientation and alienation resulting from, or connections with homeland disrupted by, conflict-related displacement. Featuring the everyday musical lives of those whose families have migrated from former Yugoslavia, South Sudan, and Iraq, it maintains that music and memory, musical adaptation, and musical recollection provide avenues for ongoing psychosocial resettlement and identity formation of children from a very young age. Thus music and conflict have a direct relationship in the lives of these children.
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