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'''M4GHD comprises two main branches:''' <br>
 
'''M4GHD comprises two main branches:''' <br>
  
* (1) '''[[Songs for sustainable peace and development]]''':  primarily via local mass-mediated popular music styles, to disseminate messages relevant to crucial development issues, especially public health, education, peace, tolerance, and constructive critique...and especially to the youth, while building a culture of music.  This project focuses on social ''weft'', the horizontal threads the bind society today. A crucial application is GIVING VOICE TO HEALTH:
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* (1) '''[[Songs for sustainable peace and development]]''':  primarily via local mass-mediated popular music styles, to disseminate messages relevant to crucial development issues, especially public health, education, peace, tolerance, and constructive critique...and especially to the youth, while building a culture of music.  This project focuses on social ''weft'', the horizontal threads the bind society today. A crucial application is '''GIVING VOICE TO HEALTH''':
 
** '''[https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/index.php?title=Traditional_music_and_dance_for_health_education_and_promotion_in_rural_northern_Ghana Traditional music and dance for health education and promotion in rural northern Ghana]'''.  This, our principal current project, in collaboration with the Youth Home Cultural Group in Tamale, Ghana, centers on health promotion in rural areas of Ghana's Northern Region, via dance dramas combining music, dance, and theatre, and performed live in regional villages. Sustainability is ensured by initiating also local village-based musical groups carrying the same repertoire.  All this is coupled with research -- survey, focus group, and participant observation ethnography-- along with monitoring and evaluation, whose results feed back to guide the project.  
 
** '''[https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/fwa_mediawiki/index.php?title=Traditional_music_and_dance_for_health_education_and_promotion_in_rural_northern_Ghana Traditional music and dance for health education and promotion in rural northern Ghana]'''.  This, our principal current project, in collaboration with the Youth Home Cultural Group in Tamale, Ghana, centers on health promotion in rural areas of Ghana's Northern Region, via dance dramas combining music, dance, and theatre, and performed live in regional villages. Sustainability is ensured by initiating also local village-based musical groups carrying the same repertoire.  All this is coupled with research -- survey, focus group, and participant observation ethnography-- along with monitoring and evaluation, whose results feed back to guide the project.  
 
**  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmCk4WHPfSU&feature=youtu.be Sanitation] and its accompanying [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDal4NaYbw&feature=youtu.be documentary].'''   
 
**  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmCk4WHPfSU&feature=youtu.be Sanitation] and its accompanying [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDal4NaYbw&feature=youtu.be documentary].'''   

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http://m4ghd.org

Music for Global Human Development (M4GHD) entails participatory action research projects in music & development (humanized in aims and methods), centered on global collaborations between academics, NGOs, government organizations, musicians, and others, applying ethnomusicology to real-world social issues, focusing on peoples who have been marginalized--socially, politically, economically--by colonialism and its aftermath, whether in the "developing" world or not. These music-centered projects, often including also related arts (dance, poetry, drama) as well, are ideally twinned with evaluative evidence-based research, gauging project impact through anthropological and sociological study. They are carried out as collaborative partnerships with artists and other experts in each locale.




M4GHD comprises two main branches:

  • (1) Songs for sustainable peace and development: primarily via local mass-mediated popular music styles, to disseminate messages relevant to crucial development issues, especially public health, education, peace, tolerance, and constructive critique...and especially to the youth, while building a culture of music. This project focuses on social weft, the horizontal threads the bind society today. A crucial application is GIVING VOICE TO HEALTH:


  • (2) Music for cultural continuity and civil society: supporting participatory musical continuity (not stasis) for intergenerational connectivity over time--the social "warp"--and hence 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. Subprojects include partnerships with culture organizations in Egypt, Lebanon, and elsewhere. See for instance, in Ghana: Kinka: Songs from Avenorpedo

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Please follow the above links to learn more...

For more information contact us: info@m4ghd.org.

--Michael Frishkopf, Professor of Music, University of Alberta
http://frishkopf.org