M4GHD aims, ideas, theories, methods

Ideas

... and their histories...

• Music. As a technology. Read: Patel.
• Ethnomusicology. Read: Rice, pp. 1-10
• Globalization
• Development:
  • economic - technological - political. Review: traditional models.
  • human and social. Review: HDI.
  • cultural. Review: AKTC
  • arts. Read: Kabanda.
  • sustainable [1]
• Well-being. Happiness. Read: Maslow as summarized and critiqued in Maslow 2.0
• M4GHD: the following categories are emphases, never mutually exclusive
  • Songs for sustainable peace and development (C4D)
  • Music for cultural continuity and civil society (lifeworld)
  • Musical Tourism (economy)

Methods

Quantifying development

Question:   how can we measure development? what roles could music play?

• Development indices
• HDI
• Canadian index of well-being
• World happiness report
• Quantitative vs. Qualitative research (surveys and case studies), KAP
• Readings:

PAR

• Participation
• Community-based collaboration
• Readings:

Media

• Multimedia
• Social media

Social and semantic networks

• Social net: society
• Semantic net: culture
• The social fabric

• Society as a social network
• Culture as a semantic network
• Music culture as a socio-semantic network

Theory: Systems and Lifeworld

Reading:

• Habermas
• Schutz
• Buber

M4GHD

Music as a social technology: transforming society as social network, culture as semantic network, transforming relationships

Issues & Applications

Music for Identity and Intercultural Understanding

• Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music
• South Asian Music and Culture in Canada

Music for community-formation

MENAME: UofA's Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble

Building infrastructure for m4ghd

• Building archives (El Mastaba and Makan)
• Building groups ("singing and dancing for health" youth groups)

Music, forced migration, and refugees

Readings:

Projects:

http://bit.ly/buducd

Music for Global Health

Readings:

Projects:

• Singing and Dancing for Health in Northern Ghana
• Sanitation and its accompanying documentary.
• Music for Ebola awareness, prevention and training
• Music for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health', 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)
• Insight2

Music for Education

Readings:

Projects:

Music, Peace, War, Violence

Victor Jara

Buducd

Music for cultural continuity and civil Society

Kinka

Aswan Music Project

Supporting the El Mastaba Project

Musicians, Producers, Others

Try to bring them in by skype or otherwise

• Shadow and others from Liberia
• Norvor
• Nora
• Ari
• Fairouz
• Thomas Gobena

Films, Videos, Albums

Sierra Leone Refugee All-stars