M4GHD issues, applications

Issues & Applications

Focus on localized, adapted, small-scale, indie musical approaches...expressions and solutions to big global (system) problems that don't fall prey to the system...

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)

Human Rights

Rights of women and girls

Nneka performs “Shining Star” on #Music4Dev

Rights of the disabled

deaf rapper

Music, forced migration, and refugees

Readings:

Projects:

Giving Voice to Hope: Music of Liberian Refugees (raising funds and awareness, supporting local music)

For the People (raising funds and awareness)

Refugees of Rap

http://www.pbs.org/pov/sierraleone/

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'[1] , 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[2][3], Dr. Stan Kutcher and Farm Radio International.

Education

Readings:

Projects:

Child Education in Liberia

Poverty

• #Music4Dev Artist MzVee Dedicates Her Music to 'End Poverty'

• #Music4Dev Guest MzVee Calls for an End to Poverty Through Song

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