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Book SynopsisThere 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 tem
Table of ContentsChapter 1: An Overview: Music for Healing, Peace-Building and Resistance, by Rafiki Ubaldo and Helen Hintjens
PART I – Youth and the Future of Liberal Peace
Chapter 2: Resistance and Violence Prevention through Hip-Hop: The Case of Youth from Marginalized Contexts in Colombia, by Catalina Gil Pinzón
Chapter 3: New Colombian Music: Heritage and Multiculturalism on the Constitutional Road to Peace, by Juan D. Montoya Alzate
PART II – Contextualising Healing
Chapter 4: Ethno-music Therapy: Perspectives from Kenya and Brazil, by David O. Akombo
Chapter 5: Hope, Destruction, and Reconciliation: Samputu’s Healing Ngoma, by Brent Swanson
Chapter 6: The Resonance of Music when Teachers and Students Remember War: Experiences from Public Schools in Bogotá, Colombia, by Julian David Bermeo Osorio
PART III: Resistance, Time, Memory
Chapter 7: Reviving Orchestre Impala: Recovering the Past in Rwanda? By Helen Hintjens and Rafiki Ubaldo
Chapter 8: The Lamentations of Thomas Mapfumo: Pfumvu Paruzevha as an Expression of Rural Suffering and Resistance in Colonial Zimbabwe, by Everisto Benyera
Chapter 9: Music and the Aesthetics of Resistance, by Frank Möller
