M4GHD aims, ideas, theories, methods

Ideas

... and their histories...

Music

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

Music is more than "art sound", more than "sound"...

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)

Theory

What is the power of music to effect social change? Music is a powerful technology...

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

Methods

PAR

• Participation
• Community-based collaboration
• Readings:

Media

• Multimedia
• Social media

Research: impact assessment

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
• M4GHD Impact assessments
• Readings:

M4GHD

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