Music and Peacebuilding: African and Latin American Experiences
Rafiki Ubaldo · Helen Hintjens
Jun 2020 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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214
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There is growing interest among scholars and practitioners in how the arts can help rebuild post-conflict societies. This edited collection explores a range of musical practices for social and political peace. By presenting case studies in each chapter, the aim is to engage with musicality in relation to time, space, peace-building, healing, and reconciliation. Emerging scholars' work on Latin America, especially Colombia, and on the African Great Lakes region, including Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Kenya, is brought together with the purpose of reflecting critically on 'music for peace-building' initiatives. Each author considers how legacies of violence are addressed and sometimes overcome; lyrics are examined as a source of insights. These practical “music for peace-building” initiatives include NGO work with youth hip-hop, music for peace, work in education on memory, as well as popular culture and shared rituals. Special attention is paid to historical and contextual settings, to the temporal and spatial dimension of musicality and to youth and gender in peace-building through music.
About the author
Rafiki Ubaldo is a Rwandan-Swedish writer, scholar and photojournalist.
Helen Hintjens is assistant professor in development and social justice at the International Institute of Social Studies, an institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Helen Hintjens is assistant professor in development and social justice at the International Institute of Social Studies, an institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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