“Playing for Change”: Peace, Universality, and the Street Performer

Hirsch, Lily E.

doi:10.5406/americanmusic.28.3.0346

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“…However, the macro-cultural view of music's capacity for progressivism seems to argue that music is a tool that can be just as divisive as religious differences and can go further to exacerbate political turmoil. These scholars (Dave, 2015;Hirsch 2010;Matsunobu, 2011) ascertain that music is intrinsically linked to politics in a way that implies any musical gesture is a political statement attributable to a specific group's identity, yet some still argue that, on an individual level, any form of music can represent an aesthetic that resonates with any individual, such as the argument presented by Whale (2015). To reconcile this disparity, it could be argued that, since the environment of cultural turmoil does not facilitate cross-cultural communication and peace building, music does not necessarily drive the wedge between groups but the group's intent of division in its musical context does.…”

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A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review Regarding Musical Universality in Academic Literature.

Graddy¹

2022

J Stud Res

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Music Universality is a widely discussed phenomenon within areas of psychology as well as ethnomusicology, and these disciplines often differ in their interpretations of universality. Evolutionary psychology in particular is guided by an empirical scientific philosophy that argues musicality is innate within human nature. However, ethnomusicology is often guided by interpretive research designs that preserve the nuance of universality to argue that the experience of music is highly. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to reconcile these differing perspectives in an interdisciplinary systematic review method that utilizes thematic analysis and meta-analysis of appropriate studies in order to answer two common discourses on musicality: the extent to which innate musicality verses cultural factors affects musical perception and how music can be utilized to communicate messages cross-culturally. The meta-analysis demonstrated that cultural factors serve as a more consistent factor that influences musical perception than any theory of innate, universal musicality, yet the thematic analysis was more divisive in its conclusions regarding music’s ability to facilitate cross-cultural communication, implying that the phenomenon is not yet well understood in the most recent literature. These findings indicate that both types of disciplines are converging in their conclusions regarding perceptual factors of music experience that refutes the universality argument, but other topics like cross-cultural communication lack the scientific rigor to create a unified theory of such a phenomenon. Therefore, despite the differences in academic philosophy, these fields are increasingly utilizing scientific evidence along with interpretive evidence to develop more sophisticated theories of human musicality.

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A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review Regarding Musical Universality in Academic Literature.

Graddy¹

2022

J Stud Res

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The Transformative Capacity of Communication: Integrative Communicative Acts Across the Communicative Spectrum of Civil Society

Pukallus

2021

Communication in Peacebuilding

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The Transformative Capacity of CommunicationThe communicative spectrum of civil society spans a variety of different forms of communication-both mediated and non-mediated. The latter includes for example negotiations and discussion groups, speeches, debate, deliberation and dialogue whereas the former subsumes the factual and fictional mass media as much as the arts which are conceived of here in all of their diversity and spanning the different categories of the visual, literary, performing and design. Often, the communicative spectrum of civil society is dominated by multiple mass media channels simply because advances in communication technology have taken content and reconfigured and commodified it to fit myriad forms of digital distribution. At the same time, digital technology has broadened the platforms from which it can operate. But it is important to remember that the arts fulfil an equally important role. With this in mind, the communicative spectrum of civil society can be defined to include non-mediated communication in all its forms, news journalism, citizen journalism, participatory media, social media, (community) radio, literature, biography, poetry as well as audio-visual media such as cinema, documentary,

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Street music, technology and the urban soundscape

Bennett

Rogers

2014

Continuum

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In this article, we will examine the role and place of the street musician, their contribution to the urban soundscape and the ways in which this has been informed and (re)shaped by recent advances in music technology. Despite their global omnipresence, street musicians have seldom been the focus of contemporary scholarly research on music-making and performance. Historically, the street musician has been perceived and depicted as a romantic folk figure, one moving through and working in the urban environment in an ad hoc manner. However, as our research reveals, through the diversification of street music and the steady uptake of new music performance technologies, street musicians are forging different forms of presence in contemporary urban settings, their music becoming an inextricable aspect of the contemporary urban soundscape. Drawing on face-to-face interviews and participant observation work conducted in Brisbane, Australia, during late 2010 and early 2011, we endeavour here to bring street musicians further into the academic dialogues surrounding musicians and performance and in doing so further highlight the centrality of digital music tools within the work of contemporary street music performance.

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“Playing for Change”: Peace, Universality, and the Street Performer

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review Regarding Musical Universality in Academic Literature.

A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review Regarding Musical Universality in Academic Literature.

The Transformative Capacity of Communication: Integrative Communicative Acts Across the Communicative Spectrum of Civil Society

Street music, technology and the urban soundscape

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