Sounding Conflict

From Resistance to Reconciliation

Fiona Magowan, Pedro Rebelo, Stefanie Lehner, Julie M. Norman, Ariana Phillips-Hutton

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781501383021
• eBook ISBN:
  9781501383038
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Music History & Criticism

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Introduction: Sound ambiguities
• 1 Sound methodologies in conflict transformation and peacebuilding
• 2 Resistance: Performing the frontline
• 3 Resilience in creative practice in a post-conflict context: Musicians Without Borders
• 4 Remediating relationships: Collaborative storytelling and conflict
• 5 From noises of conflict to dissonant sounds of reconciliation in the Northern Irish theatre
• 6 Working through creative practice: Socially engaged arts interventions
• Conclusion
• References
• List of Contributors
• List of Partners
• Index
• Copyright Page