Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation

ISBN: 9781501383021 (1501383027)
Edition Type: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages: 240
Date Published: 23rd Feb 2023

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Sonic Ambiguities: Resistance, Resilience and Reconciliation
1. Sound Methodologies in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
2. Resistance: Performing 'the Frontline'
3. Resilience in Post-Conflict Creative Arts
4. Reconciliation: Sounding and Imaging Peacebuilding through Theatre
5. Resourcefulness in Creative Practice: Socially Engaged Arts Interventions

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Sound, music and storytelling are important tools of resistance, resilience and reconciliation in creative practice from protracted conflict to post-conflict contexts. When they are used in a socially engaged participatory capacity, they can create counter-narratives to conflict. Based on original research in three continents, this book advances an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to exploring the role of sonic and creative practices in addressing the effects of conflict. Each case study illustrates how participatory arts genres are variously employed by musicians, arts facilitators, theatre practitioners, community activists and other stakeholders as a means of ‘strategic creativity’ to transform trauma and promote empowerment. This research further highlights the complex dynamics of delivering and managing creativity among those who have experienced violence, as they seek opportunities to generate alternative arenas for engagement, healing and transformation.

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