Traditional news media is one of the most important channels of information about contemporary society. It has been acknowledged for long that media representations affect public opinion, meaning that media can alter identifications and in the prolonging social norms and practices participative conditions. Migration is an established topic in traditional news media research, in terms of representations, but music is not. Then, what does music and migration come to mean when put next to each other in a newspaper? And how are these concepts related? To discuss these questions, this presentation draws on a study in which 106 newspaper articles from six major Swedish newspapers published over a period of five years, were analyzed through a discourse theoretic perspective. In the investigated media, ‘music’ is repeatedly described as a tool, capable of affecting social relations and processes. The discursive representation of ‘migrants’ confirms the picture provided in previous research, according to which the ‘migrant’ often is negatively depicted. When the ‘migrant’ is regarded together with representations of music, one can see how the ‘migrant’ identity changes. Instead of being characterized by passivity and complaint, the identity enables agency. Rather than being passive, the ‘migrant’ may now become active in addressing and handling problematic social relations and phenomena. However, the meaning of ‘music’ does not change but become the foundation of a mythic ritual, according to which subjects turn into conforming and well-integrated citizens.