M4GHD aims, ideas, theories, methods
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Ideas
... and their histories...
- Ethnomusicology. Read: Rice, pp. 1-10
- Globalization
- Development:
- economic
- technological
- political
- social
- cultural
- sustainable [1]
- Happiness. Read: Maslow as summarized and critiqued in Maslow 2.0
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
- Readings:
PAR
- Participation
- Community-based collaboration
- Readings:
Media
- Multimedia
- Social media
System and Lifeworld
Reading:
- Habermas
- Schutz
- Buber
Social and semantic networks
- Society as a social network
- Culture as a semantic network
- Music culture as a socio-semantic network
Feedback, emergence, resonance
M4GHD
Music as a social technology
Music for Cultural Continuity and Civil Society
Songs for Sustainable Peace and Development
Issues & Applications
Musical infrastructure
- Building archives (El Mastaba and Makan)
- Building groups ("singing and dancing for health" youth groups)
Music, forced migration, and refugees
Readings:
Projects:
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)
Music for Education
Readings:
Projects:
Music for Peace
Victor Jara
Music for cultural continuity and civil Society
Aswan Music Project