Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics

Contents

• Notes on
• Contributors ix
• Preface xii Olivier Urbain
• Foreword xv Peter van den Dungen
• Acknowledgements xvii Multimedia Material Accompanying this Volume xix
• Introduction 1 Olivier Urbain
• PART I FRAMEWORKS 1 Music and Empathy 13 Felicity Laurence 2 Music: A Universal Language? 26 Cynthia Cohen 3 Music and Value in Cross-Cultural Work 40 June Boyce-Tillman 4 Peace, Music and the Arts: In Search of Interconnections 53 Johan Galtung
• PART II POLITICS 5 Music as a Tool of Reconciliation in South Africa 63 Anne-Marie Gray 6 We Shall Overcome: The Roles of Music in the US Civil Rights Movement 78 Baruch Whitehead 7 Music as a Discourse of Resistance: The Case of Gilad Atzmon 93 Karen Ab
• PART III HEALING AND EDUCATION 9 Music Behind Bars: Testimonies of Suffering, Survival and Transformation 115 Kjell Skyllstad 10 Healing Cultural Violence: "Collective Vulnerability" through Guided Imagery with Music 128 Vegar Jordanger 11 Music Therapy:
• PART IV STORIES FROM THE FIELD 13 Working in the Trenches: Surviving Conflicts through Folk Music and Tales 187 Rik Palieri 14 Art for Harmony in the Middle East: The Music of Yair Dalal 201 Olivier Urbain 15 Music and Peacemaking in Educational Contexts
• Index 229