Music and Peacebuilding - African and Latin American Experiences

This book examines music as a means of making peace. It is a multidisciplinary study, grounded in peace studies and musicology that reflects on whether the creative arts can promote healing and reconciliation, within communities, in pedagogy and in national - and international - popular culture.

List of contents

Chapter 1: An Overview: Music for Healing, Peace-Building and Resistance, by Rafiki Ubaldo and Helen Hintjens

PART I - Youth and the Future of Liberal Peace

Chapter 2: Resistance and Violence Prevention through Hip-Hop: The Case of Youth from Marginalized Contexts in Colombia, by Catalina Gil Pinzón

Chapter 3: New Colombian Music: Heritage and Multiculturalism on the Constitutional Road to Peace, by Juan D. Montoya Alzate

PART II - Contextualising Healing

Chapter 4: Ethno-music Therapy: Perspectives from Kenya and Brazil, by David O. Akombo

Chapter 5: Hope, Destruction, and Reconciliation: Samputu's Healing Ngoma, by Brent Swanson

Chapter 6: The Resonance of Music when Teachers and Students Remember War: Experiences from Public Schools in Bogotá, Colombia, by Julian David Bermeo Osorio

PART III: Resistance, Time, Memory

Chapter 7: Reviving Orchestre Impala: Recovering the Past in Rwanda? By Helen Hintjens and Rafiki Ubaldo

Chapter 8: The Lamentations of Thomas Mapfumo: Pfumvu Paruzevha as an Expression of Rural Suffering and Resistance in Colonial Zimbabwe, by Everisto Benyera

Chapter 9: Music and the Aesthetics of Resistance, by Frank Möller

About the author

Rafiki Ubaldo is a Rwandan-Swedish writer, scholar and photojournalist.

Helen Hintjens is assistant professor in development and social justice at the International Institute of Social Studies, an institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Summary

This book examines music as a means of making peace. It is a multidisciplinary study, grounded in peace studies and musicology that reflects on whether the creative arts can promote healing and reconciliation, within communities, in pedagogy and in national - and international - popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: Rafiki Hintjens Ubaldo
• Assisted by: Helen Hintjens (Editor), Rafiki Ubaldo (Editor), Ubaldo Rafiki (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781498567503
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6750-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Music, MUSIC / General, 20th Century, Africa, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, Politics and government, Violence in society, General and world history, Violence and abuse in society