Music and Global Human Development

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Music and Indigenous Development: musicindev

Short URL for this site: http://bit.ly/musicindev

The project encompasses participatory action research projects in music & development, centered on collaborations between academics, NGOs, government organizations, musicians, and others, focusing peoples who have been marginalized--socially, politically, economically--by colonialism and its aftermath, whether in the "developing" world or not.*

Musicindev entails two main directions:

  • Songs for sustainable peace and development: using local mass-mediated popular music styles to disseminate messages relevant to crucial development issues, especially public health, education, and tolerance, and especially to the youth. Most of our work thus far has been with Liberian musicians, dealing with post-civil war issues. See, for instance, Sanitation
  • Music for cultural continuity and civil society: supporting participatory musical continuity (not stasis) for intergenerational connectivity over time, and social solidarity in the present. Ironically one of the most powerful ways to support musical continuity is by injecting "traditional" music into the local media space, which otherwise tends to become filled with global popular music. Projects include partnerships with culture organizations in Egypt, Lebanon, and elsewhere. See for instance, in Ghana: Kinka: Songs from Avenorpedo

Please follow the above links to learn more...

--Michael Frishkopf


* We mean indigenous in the broadest possible sense, to mean peoples marginalized by forces of colonialism and post-colonialism, westernization and globalization, and overly rapid techno-economic change, whether in the Global South, or at the margins of the developed world.)