M4GHD aims, ideas, theories, methods
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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
Feedback, emergence, resonance
M4GHD
Music as a social technology: transforming society as social network, culture as semantic network, transforming relationships
Music for Cultural Continuity and Civil Society
Songs for Sustainable Peace and Development
Musical Tourism
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)
- Insight2
Music for Education
Readings:
Projects:
Music, Peace, War, Violence
Victor Jara
Buducd
Music for cultural continuity and civil Society
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