African Great Lakes
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Colombia
Conflict Studies
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Healing
Kenya
Legacy of Violence
Music
Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Initiatives
Rebuilding
Rwanda
Truth and Reconciliation
Zimbabwe
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- ISBN 9781498567503
- Weight: 354g
- Dimensions: 155 x 218mm
- Publication Date: 21 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
