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- The paper critiques the traditional "intervention-as-solution" model for health in international development, advocating for a more nuanced approach by integrating Community Music Therapy and ethnomusicology.
- It uses case studies from Lebanon and South Sudan to illustrate how music-based health applications can be adapted in conflict and post-conflict settings.
- The concept of deep listening, as defined by Pauline Oliveros, is central to developing culturally relevant health practices that promote the reconnection of individuals with themselves, their communities, and their environments.
Article Abstract
This paper challenges the "intervention-as-solution" approach to health and well-being as commonly practised in the international development sector, and draws on the disciplinary intersections between Community Music Therapy and ethnomusicology in seeking a more negotiated and situationally apposite framework for health engagement. Drawing inspiration from music-based health applications in conflict or post-conflict environments in particular, and focusing on case studies from Lebanon and South Sudan respectively, the paper argues for a re-imagined international development health and well-being framework based on the concept of Defined by composer Pauline Oliveros as listening which "digs below the surface of what is heard … unlocking layer after layer of imagination, meaning, and memory down to the cellular level of human experience" (Oliveros, 2005), the paper explores the methodological applications of such a dialogic, discursive approach with reference to a range of related listening stances - cultural, social and therapeutic. In so doing, it explores opportunities for multi-levelled and culturally inclusive health and well-being practices relevant to different localities in the world and aimed at the re-integration of self, place and community.
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