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Music and Conflict

Music and Conflict

Edited by John Morgan O'Connell and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco

Contributions by 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

Published by: University of Illinois Press

Imprint: University of Illinois Press

28 photos, 2 maps, 3 charts, 8 music examples, 3 tables

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9780252090257
Published: October 2010

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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.

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Preface

Introduction: An Ethnomusicological Approach to Music and Conflict

PART 1: Music in War

1. Kosova Calls for Peace: Song, Myth, and War in an Age of Global Media

2. Musical Enactment of Conflict and Compromise in Azerbaijan

PART 2: Music across Boudaries

3. Music across the DMZ

4. Fife and Fiddle: Protestants and Traditional Music in Northern Ireland

PART 3: Music after Displacement

5. The Suyá and the White Man: Forty-five Years of Musical Diplomacy in Brazil

6. Asymmetrical Relations: Conflict and Music as Human Response

PART 4: Music and Ideology

7. Music at the Margins: Performance and Ideology in the Persianate World

8. Performing Religious Politics: Islamic Musical Arts in Indonesia

PART 5: Music in Application

9. Music in War, Music in Peace: Experiences in Applied Ethnomusicology

10. Music against Fascism: Applied Ethnomusicology in Rostock, Germany

PART 6: Music as Conflict

11. Sound Praxis: Music, Politics, and Violence in Brazil

12. Musical Enactment of Attitudes toward Conflict in the United States

Epilogue: Ethnomusicologists as Advocates

References

Contributors

Index

John Morgan O'Connell is a senior lecturer in ethnomusicology and the director of the program in ethnomusicology at Cardiff University. Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco is a professor of ethnomusicology and the director of the Institute of Ethnomusicology at New University of Lisbon, Portugal.

"Recommended."--Choice

"Valuable both for the contextual and geographic breadth of its content and for its commitment to engaging ethnomusicological discourse (theoretical and practical) in applied settings."--MUSICultures

"Until now, the intersection of music and conflict has been under-documented and under-theorized in ethnomusicology. Music and Conflict bravely addresses the 'darker side' of musical behavior, documenting how music sometimes works to incite violence and how it may also be used to rebuild communities torn apart by misunderstandings, conflict, and even war."--Nancy Guy, author of Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan

"O'Connell and Castelo-Branco make a compelling argument for the need to shed scholarly and applied light onto these darker areas of musical behavior."--Notes