Music & Peacebuilding
A professional development network at http://musicpeacebuilding.com exploring intersections of peacebuilding, culture, sacredness, relationship, community, creativity, and imagination through research and story. Thinking deeply, we reclaim space for connection and care.
Episodes
54 episodes since 2019
Together Somehow pt3: Unfoldings, Thickenings, and Utopian visions
The conclusion of this series on dancefloors, electronic dance music, and house music examines how dancefloors offer space to imagine differently. The episode looks at how the synchronous movement and entrainment of bodies propels bodies to mov...
August 23, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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30:39
Together Somehow pt 2: Intimacy, Belonging, and Paradox
Part two of this three-part series on dancefloors and belonging examines how we experience intimacy and a sense of vague belonging. We look at the complex conflicted feelings of our lives that introduce paradox in a queer approach to analysis t...
August 06, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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42:16
Together Somehow: Place, Space, and Belonging
Part one of the three-part series on Together, Somehow explores structures and politics of belonging, cultural tightness and looseness, and understandings of translocal culture. Looking specifically at nightlife and rave scene subculture, we lo...
June 15, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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31:54
World Music Drumming Legacies and Visions
World Music Drumming offers opportunities for teachers to enrich general music curricula through ensemble-centered explorations of diverse musics. This episode with Patty Bourne, director of World Music drumming, explores the legacy of Will Sch...
April 06, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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44:58
Dignity, Kindness, and Social Identity
This interview with Dr. Mica Estrada explores her work in researching belonging, social identity, and kindness. Beginning with an exploration of impostor phenomena, we first explore stories about Donna Hicks’s direct experience at being affirme...
January 20, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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50:04
Dignity and Self Expansion with Dr. Donna Hicks
This is the first in a two-part series on dignity, belonging, awe, humility, kindness, and identity. In this first episode, we spend time with Dr. Donna Hicks to discuss the magic of dignity language, a South African heritage of Mandela Conscio...
December 16, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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54:10
Sound Connects Us: Belonging, Synchrony, Language, and Noise
Part two of the conversation with Dr. Nina Kraus examines how we find our sense of belonging within our sonic worlds. Speaking of how sound connects us, we enter dialogues about modulations of harmony, synchrony, the power of singing, and how m...
November 04, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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32:12
Sound Connects Us: Betweenness of Sonic Experience
In this two-part series with Dr. Nina Kraus we examine the neuroscience of our hearing brains, exploring how we make meaning from our sonic worlds. In episode 1, we look at the afferent and efferent journeys as our brains construct meaning from...
October 28, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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30:51
Dancing the Dance of Emotions Between Us
Exploring the research of Batja Mesquita and other cultural psychologists and social psychologists, this episode examines how emotions are enacted between humans. Challenging the US-centric worldview that emotions are only within an individual,...
September 29, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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51:50
Re-membering Ourselves Home through Breath and Voice
This episode explores the work of Taína Asili, her album Resiliencia, and the many voices that inspired her work in this album. As we understand notions of belonging, we explore Puerto Rican heritage, alternative voices of punk culture, languag...
August 12, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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53:31
Season Four Trailer
What does it mean to belong? This question and other fascinating questions on belonging will be explored in season four of the music and peacebuilding podcast. Our topics will include musical reclamations, musical identities, the neuroscience o...
June 30, 2023
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Season 4
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Episode 0
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2:28
Dialogues of Courage, Wisdom, and Compassion with Olivier Urbain, Kevin Maher, and Anri Tanabe
This is the second in a two-episode series exploring the legacy of Daisaku Ikeda and the practice of dialogue. In this episode, we ask how wisdom, courage, and compassion is lived and practiced through music and dialogue. In particular, we look...
December 22, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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50:53
Courage, Wisdom, and Compassion with Olivier Urbain: Ikeda’s Story
This is a two-episode series exploring the legacy of Daisaku Ikeda and the practice of dialogue through interconnectedness and a human revolution of courage, wisdom, and compassion. In this episode, we explore the legacy and history of Johan Ga...
December 17, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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40:25
Crossing Thesholds and Passages in Shakuhachi Practice with Kiku Day
This second episode of a two-part series with Kiku Day explores shakuhachi soundings of cultural translation and peacebuilding. With the famous honkyoku piece, Tamuke, we encounter the problems of cultural translation and how a piece about pass...
November 19, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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40:17
Sounding Flow and Silence in Shakuhachi Practice with Kiku Day
This first episode of a two-part series with Kiku Day explores shakuhachi history and how the shakuhachi is taught and learned. Central to shakuhachi are traditions of flow and the use of silence or absence through the language of ma. Recording...
November 05, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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33:41
Reflective Celebrations of 10,000 Downloads
Bringing together Dan Shevock, Jon Rudy, and Tyné Angela Freeman, this is a reflective episode about the first three years of this podcast. Exploring notions of story, spirituality, theoretical framework, and the notion of a lived walk, this is...
September 15, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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43:08
Dynamic Samul Nori and Intentional Difference
Samul nori represents a modern percussion genre of four things - the changgo, buk, k’kwaenggwari , and ching. Originally known as p’ungmul and nongak this genre was transformed as dynamic as it entered concert spaces. Comprised of karak that dy...
September 03, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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56:37
Who We Be: Agency, Performativity, and Collegiate A Cappella
In this podcast, we take a tour with Dr. Brent Talbot on Talbot and Mantie’s research into American collegiate a cappella singing through the lens of agency, performativity, and leisure. Our performances of gender, sexuality, and identity are o...
August 06, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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33:36
Who We Be: Collectivist Agency and Balinese Gamelan
In this podcast, we take a tour with Dr. Brent Talbot Balinese gamelan through the lens of agency and performativity. Exploring diverse cultures of Bali and the US, we ask questions of how we construct agency and stories of our performanc...
July 23, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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40:40
Building Changed Spaces for Peacebuilding in Filipino Contexts
Wendy Kroeker explores her research on peacebuilding and conflict resolution in the Philippines and the island of Mindanao. Exploring the root causes of violence, we examine histories of colonialism impacting Moro, Lumad, and the Filipino resid...
June 25, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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51:34
Beauty Beneath the Surface: Composing Change with the Japanese Koto
Masayo Ishigure is a world-renowned performer of the Japanese koto. This conversation explores the legacies of Tadao Sawai, Kazue Sawai, Michio Miyagi, and Japanese traditions of composing for the koto. Exploring notions of wabi-sabi, the Meiji...
May 28, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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32:44
Constructing an Activist Music Education with Juliet Hess
Drawing upon the input of 20 activist musicians, Dr. Juliet Hess wrote a book about building curricula that support noticing, naming, and coming to voice. Building from Paulo Freire’s understandings from the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Hess offe...
April 07, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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37:19
Tajik Maddâh, Healing, and Flexible Framing with Dr. Benjamin Koen
The music of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan offers opportunities to explore the importance of poetry, rhythmic flexibility, and sacred space within wellness and healing. Dr. Benjamin Koen is a leader in medical ethnomusicology who has writte...
March 19, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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51:53
Sounding Tuvan Hospitalities of Place with Theodore Levin
Theodore Levin has a lifetime of scholarship in studying music, culture, and spirituality of Central Asia and Siberia. His book on Tuvan Singing opens new understandings of melodies of timbre and musical relations with ecology and the natural w...
February 19, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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54:47
Loving Intimacies and Interconnected Being
Dr. Jeffery Long explores delicate balance, love, longing, devotion, intimacy, and compassion in Hindu texts. Beginning with the story of Ushas and the arrival of dawn from the Rigveda, we journey to the dance of Shiva and Shakti and understand...
January 29, 2022
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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33:39