Music and conflict / edited by John Morgan O'Connell and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Connell, John Morgan.

Castelo-Branco, Salwa El-Shawan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Conflict management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 289 pages) : illustrations, maps, music.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume charts a new frontier of applied ethnomusicology by highlighting the role of music in both inciting and resolving a spectrum of social and political conflicts in the contemporary world. Examining the materials and practices of music-making, contributors detail how music and performance are deployed to critique power structures and to nurture cultural awareness among communities in conflict. The essays here range from musicological studies to ethnographic analyses to accounts of practical interventions that could serve as models for conflict resolution. Music and Conflict reveals how musical texts are manipulated by opposing groups to promote conflict and how music can be utilized to advance conflict resolution. Speaking to the cultural implications of globalization and pointing out how music can promote a shared musical heritage across borders, the essays discuss the music of Albania, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, North and South Korea, Uganda, the United States, and the former Yugoslavia. The volume also includes dozens of illustrations, including photos, maps, and musical scores. Contributors are Samuel Araujo, William Beeman, Stephen Blum, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, David Cooper, Keith Howard, Inna Naroditskaya, John Morgan O'Connell, Svanibor Pettan, Anne K. Rasmussen, Adelaida Reyes, Anthony Seeger, Jane C. Sugarman, and Britta Sweers.

Contents:

Music in war. Kosova calls for peace : song, myth, and war in an age of global media / Jane C. Sugarman ; Musical enactment of conflict and compromise in Azerbaijan / Inna Naroditskaya

Music across boundaries. Music across the DMZ / Keith Howard ; Fife and fiddle : Protestants and traditional music in Northern Ireland / David Cooper

Music after displacement. The Suyá and the white man : forty-five years of musical diplomacy in Brazil / Anthony Seeger ; Asymmetrical relations : conflict and music as human response / Adelaida Reyes

Music and ideology. Music at the margins : performance and ideology in the Persianate world / William O. Beeman ; Performing religious politics : Islamic musical arts in Indonesia / Anne K. Rasmussen

Music in application. Music in war, music for peace : experiences in applied ethnomusicology / Svanibor Pettan ; Music against fascism : applied ethnomusicology in Rostock, Germany / Britta Sweers

Music as conflict. Sound praxis : music, politics, and violence in Brazil / Samuel Araújo with Grupo Musicultura ; Musical enactment of attitudes toward conflict in the United States / Stephen Blum.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-02882-4

9786613028822

0-252-09025-X

OCLC:

709664736