Music and Peacebuilding: African and Latin American Experiences Ubaldo Rafiki
Music and Peacebuilding: African and Latin American Experiences Ubaldo Rafiki There is growing interest among scholars and practitioners in how the arts can help rebuild post-conflict societies. By…
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Music and Peacebuilding: African and Latin American Experiences Ubaldo Rafiki
There is growing interest among scholars and practitioners in how the arts can help rebuild post-conflict societies. By presenting case studies in each chapter, the aim is to engage with musicality in relation to time, space, peace-building, healing, and reconciliation. This edited collection explores a range of musical practices for social and political peace.
Each author considers how legacies of violence are addressed and sometimes overcome; lyrics are examined as a source of insights. 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. 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