M4GHD aims, ideas, theories, methods

Ideas

... and their histories...

Music

• Music. As a technology. Read: Patel.
• Ethnomusicology. Read: Rice, pp. 1-10

For

• Applied ethnomusicology, applied anthropology

Global

• Globalization
• Global citizenship (global human)

Human Development

• Development: goals and models
  • economic - technological - political. Review: traditional models.
  • human and social. Review: HDI.
  • cultural. Review: AKTC
  • arts. Read: Kabanda.
  • sustainable [1]
  • MDGs and SDGs
• Well-being. Happiness. Peak experiences. Read: Maslow as summarized and critiqued in Maslow 2.0

Music for Global Human Development

• M4GHD: the following categories are emphases, never mutually exclusive
  • Songs for sustainable peace and development (C4D)
  • Music for cultural continuity and civil society (lifeworld)

Methods

PAR

• Participation
• Community-based collaboration
• Readings:

Media

• Multimedia
• Social media

Measuring (human) development

Question: how can we measure (human) development? how do we measure program effectiveness?

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

Theory

Music

• Definition and scope
• Key properties

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

Systems and Lifeworlds

Reading:

• Habermas
• Schutz
• Buber

• Feedback, emergence, resonance

M4GHD

Music as a social technology: transforming the social fabric (society as social network, culture as semantic network), transforming relationships, catalyzing connections.

Issues & Applications

Focus on localized, adapted musical approaches...expressions and solutions to big global problems.

Music for Sustainable Development

• Global South Initiative on Arts and Culture
• Promoting cultural industries in Ghana through multi-stakeholder participation

Music for Identity and Intercultural Understanding

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

Music for community-formation and maintenance

• MENAME: UofA's Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble
• Church congregations in Ghana

Infrastructure for m4ghd

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

Music, forced migration, and refugees

Readings:

Projects:

Giving Voice to Hope: Music of Liberian Refugees

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'[2] , 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[3][4], Dr. Stan Kutcher and Farm Radio International.

Music for Education

Readings:

Projects:

Child Education in Liberia

Poverty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0yLGnzoMw

Conflict, Political Repression, Violence, War

Victor Jara

protest songs of the vietnam war

Reasons

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

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

by skype or otherwise

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

Films, Videos, Albums

Sierra Leone Refugee All-stars