Composing Aid Music, Refugees, and Humanitarian Politics |
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| Author:
| Shao, Oliver |
| Series title: | Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-06767-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2023 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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Composing Aid is unique to the book market for the following reasons: * It humanizes people that have experienced forced migration during a period of increasing xenophobia. * It elucidates the ways forced migrants have drawn on their cultural resources and made claims to rights amidst the debilitating conditions of a long-term refugee camp. * It challenges dominant criteria for evaluating what constitutes a successful musical aid project. * It offers a critical perspective on...
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Composing Aid is unique to the book market for the following reasons: * It humanizes people that have experienced forced migration during a period of increasing xenophobia. * It elucidates the ways forced migrants have drawn on their cultural resources and made claims to rights amidst the debilitating conditions of a long-term refugee camp. * It challenges dominant criteria for evaluating what constitutes a successful musical aid project. * It offers a critical perspective on the benefits, limits, and consequences of arts-based humanitarian interventions. * It offers a provocative rethinking of conventional research methods in ethnomusicology through its focus on activist research.