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

snarvid

Music for cultural continuity and civil Society

Kinka

Aswan Music Project

Supporting the El Mastaba Project

Music of post-2011 Syria

http://blog.mideastunes.com/post/122027272879/10-syrian-indie-musicians-who-give-us-hope-for-the

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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