ABSTRACT
“Intersectionality” refers to the phenomenon of the interlocking of different categories of social inequality, which are not considered independently of each other, but rather in their interconnections and intersections. The focus was initially on the categories of difference “race,” “class,” and “gender,” which are dominant in Western societies. Academic concepts of intersectionality examine power relations and normative tendencies that reproduce social structures and practices with their inherent inequalities. In doing so, societal, institutional, and subject-related perspectives are taken into account. In the analysis of migration-specific contexts, intersectional approaches can help do justice to the complexity of situations of discrimination and reveal possible asymmetries, attenuations, or reinforcements depending on the different categories, such as gender, age, citizenship, skin color, sexual orientation, social origin, educational background, or religious affiliation in connection with a migration background. In the context of music, the reflection of intersectionality is especially evident today in music-sociological approaches, music-related gender research, and popular music studies.
