M4GHD issues, applications

M4GHD: Issues & Applications - BIG PROBLEMS and how to solve them, musically...

Focus on localized, adapted, small-scale, indie musical approaches...expressions and solutions to big global (system) problems that resist the system...

Music for community-formation and maintenance

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

Music for Identity and Intercultural Understanding

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

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, Hunger

• #Music4Dev Artist MzVee Dedicates Her Music to 'End Poverty' #Music4Dev Guest MzVee Calls for an End to Poverty Through Song
• Live Aid (1985)

Egyptian singers:

• Sayyed Darwish - al-`ummal
• Shukuku - Fagr
• Anwar Wagdi - Ma`na Riyal (& Fayrouz)
• Shaykh Imam - Humma keen
• Shadia
• Na`Im Akif

Repression, Conflict, Violence, War: peace and social justice

Victor Jara[4]

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 (Egypt)
• El Mastaba Archive Project (Egypt)
• Makan archive project (Egypt)
• Dagomba music teaching
• Syrian indie musicians for hope

Broadly focused projects: music for individual and social progress, social justice, intercultural understanding

• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings(library access: [5])
• Playing for Change. "Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music. The idea for this project came from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people."
• El Sistema[6]. El Sistema is a tested model of how a music program can both create great musicians and dramatically change the life trajectory of hundreds of thousands of a nation's neediest kids. Building Community: El Sistema grows from loving children first and loving music second. Emphasis is placed on creating a community that supports one another. Teachers and students alike are invested in both personal and community success, creating a place where children feel safe and challenged. El Sistema graduates leave with a sense of capability, endurance and resilience — owning a confidence about taking on enormous challenges in their lives. A deep sense of value, of being loved and appreciated, and a trust for group process and cooperation, enables them to feel that excellence is in their own hands.
• Mideast Tunes. Our mission is to bridge barriers of faith and geography to unite people committed to fostering constructive discourse in the region through music.
• Atlanta Music Project. The Atlanta Music Project believes the pursuit of musical excellence leads to the development of confidence, creativity and ambition, thus sparking positive social change in the individuals and the communities we serve. Mission Statement: “To inspire social change by providing Atlanta’s underserved youth the opportunity to learn and perform music in orchestras and choirs.”
• Mashirika. Mashirika's mission is to prove that performing arts is not only entertainment but a tool of social transformation and source of employment..
• World Bank's Music4Dev series, e.g. Music as a tool for social change

Musicians, Producers, Others

(locate and list songs and examples)

• Shaykh Imam
• Sayyid Darwish
• Hope
• Shadow
• Norvor
• Nora
• Ari
• Fairouz
• Thomas
• Pete Seeger: [7]
• Woodie Guthrie