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Music is a social technology of tremendous potential for positive social change.   
 
Music is a social technology of tremendous potential for positive social change.   

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http://m4ghd.org

Music for Global Human Development: Participatory Action Research cycles towards a stronger social fabric.

Music is a social technology of tremendous potential for positive social change. Music for Global Human Development (m4ghd) is an approach to applied ethnomusicology. 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 is a project of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology




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

Click to view current m4ghd project taxonomy

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