M4GHD issues, applications
M4GHD: Issues & Applications - BIG PROBLEMS and how to approach them, musically...
Focus on localized, adaptive, participatory, small-scale, collaborative musical approaches...expressions and solutions to big global (system) problems that resist the system, restoring a healthy lifeworld. Perhaps nearly all music does this to some degree...but the music of greatest interest has particular properties: it is flexible (adaptive), and open to participation.
Protest music, general
Music calling explicitly for rights and justice, protesting prevailing conditions of inhumanity, is a micro- instance of "music for sustainable peace and development". Most of this music doesn't fit the mold of M4GHD because it's generally not a global, sustained, collaborative project - more often than not it's just a musician or two and guitar. But a team of one can do a lot when the song is performed and gathers a crowd - suddenly it's a musicking group, and maybe some of them will contribute actively in other ways, production, publicity, fundraising...and voila, M4GHD! These songs, usually centered on a leader, can almost always accommodate any number of participants and can adapt to circumstances; they stir, they console, they galvanize, they remember - and all the while they link participants together.
(Most of this should be filed under one or more of the headings below.)
There is much protest music on the Smithsonian Folkways label,
- Pete Seeger: [1]
- Woodie Guthrie
There is developed protest song tradition in the Arab world as well:
- Shaykh Imam
- Sayyid Darwish
- Palestinian protest music (D. Macdonald's materials)
types of FOLK SONGS:
WORKERS' SONGS
ANTIWAR SONGS
ANTI IMPERIALIST/COLONIAL SONGS
ANTI CAPITALIST SONGS
SONGS FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM
CHILDREN'S SONGS http://search.alexanderstreet.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/view/work/71507
CIVIL RIGHTS SONGS
gender
ethnicity
LGBTQ http://search.alexanderstreet.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/view/work/72444
racial equality
SOCIAL JUSTICE SONGS
ENVIRONMENT
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Classical music and protest:
CHARLES IVES (SF): http://search.alexanderstreet.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/view/work/71537
FREDERIC RZEWSKI The People United Will Never Be Defeated! Pt.1/5 based on the renowned Nueva cancion chilena song "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido" by [2], music by Sergio Ortega and the text by the Chilean revolutionary folk group Quilapayún who performed it; also performed by the famous Chilean group Inti Illamni.
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Jazz:
- Ellington
- Abby Lincoln and Max Roach - freedom now suite
Chant, general
Chant may not seem like music, but it displays many of the same properties. What it lacks in musicality it gains in mass participation - anyone can chant! And often a song becomes chant, or vice versa. (Tahrir square protests).
See: Songs of the New Arab Revolutions, first two segments.
Music for community-formation and maintenance
- MENAME: UofA's Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble
- Church congregations in Ghana
Music for Identity and Intercultural Understanding
Infrastructure for m4ghd
- Building archives (El Mastaba and Makan, Aswan)
- Building groups ("singing and dancing for health" youth groups)
Human Rights
Rights of women and girls
Nneka performs “Shining Star” on #Music4Dev
Rights of the disabled
Music, forced migration, and refugees
Readings:
Projects:
Giving Voice to Hope: Music of Liberian Refugees (raising funds and awareness, supporting local music)
For the People (raising funds and awareness)
http://www.pbs.org/pov/sierraleone/
Music for Global Health
What is the role of music in global health?
- Health literacy, promotion, awareness
- Music/dance therapy and treatment
Readings:
Projects:
- Singing and Dancing for Health in Northern Ghana
- Sanitation and its accompanying documentary.
- Music for Ebola awareness, prevention and training (compilation video)
- Music for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health'[3] , funded by Global Affairs Canada development (ex-CIDA), through a Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry grant in collaboration with St. Paul's hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (http://bit.ly/musmnch)
- Be aware: beware of HIV AIDS (Liberia)
- Insight2: Engaging the Health Humanities
- Mental Health on Air[4][5], Dr. Stan Kutcher and Farm Radio International.
Education
Readings:
Projects:
Child Education in Liberia
Poverty, Hunger
- http://search.alexanderstreet.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/view/work/71227
- #Music4Dev Artist MzVee Dedicates Her Music to 'End Poverty' #Music4Dev Guest MzVee Calls for an End to Poverty Through Song
- Live Aid (1985)
Egyptian singers:
- Sayyed Darwish - al-`ummal
- Shukuku - Fagr
- Anwar Wagdi - Ma`na Riyal (& Fayrouz)
- Shaykh Imam - Humma keen
- Shadia
- Na`Im Akif
Repression, Conflict, Violence, War: peace and social justice
Protest songs of the vietnam war
Giving Voice to Hope: Songs of Liberian Refugees
Songs of the New Arab Revolutions
Music for cultural continuity and civil society
- Kinka
- Aswan Music Project (Egypt)
- El Mastaba Archive Project (Egypt)
- Makan archive project (Egypt)
- Dagomba music teaching
- Syrian indie musicians for hope
Broadly focused projects: music for individual and social progress, social justice, intercultural understanding
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings(library access: [7])
- Playing for Change. "Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music. The idea for this project came from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people."
- El Sistema[8]. El Sistema is a tested model of how a music program can both create great musicians and dramatically change the life trajectory of hundreds of thousands of a nation's neediest kids. Building Community: El Sistema grows from loving children first and loving music second. Emphasis is placed on creating a community that supports one another. Teachers and students alike are invested in both personal and community success, creating a place where children feel safe and challenged. El Sistema graduates leave with a sense of capability, endurance and resilience — owning a confidence about taking on enormous challenges in their lives. A deep sense of value, of being loved and appreciated, and a trust for group process and cooperation, enables them to feel that excellence is in their own hands.
- Mideast Tunes. Our mission is to bridge barriers of faith and geography to unite people committed to fostering constructive discourse in the region through music.
- Atlanta Music Project. The Atlanta Music Project believes the pursuit of musical excellence leads to the development of confidence, creativity and ambition, thus sparking positive social change in the individuals and the communities we serve. Mission Statement: “To inspire social change by providing Atlanta’s underserved youth the opportunity to learn and perform music in orchestras and choirs.”
- Mashirika. Mashirika's mission is to prove that performing arts is not only entertainment but a tool of social transformation and source of employment..
- World Bank's Music4Dev series, e.g. Music as a tool for social change
Protest music, general
Musicians, Producers, Others
Each of these individuals has contributed to M4GHD-type projects of various kinds... (locate and list songs and examples)
- Hope
- Shadow
- Norvor
- Nora
- Ari
- Fairouz
- Thomas