Music and Solidarity

The philosopher Christopher Small suggests that musical meanings are concerned with relationships, both with other human beings and with the world, and that music functions as a means of exploration, affirmation, and celebration of those relationships

Felicity Laurence

Introduction; Inspiring Musical Movements and Global Solidarity: Playing for Change, Min-On and El Sistema; On Music, Interconnection, and Consciousness; Universals in Music: Music as a Communicational Space; Examples of Tunisian Intermusicality: Particularism and Universalism; Compositional Process and Intercultural Dialogue: The Role of Music in a Collective Harmonious Consciousness; Orchestrating Multiple Eastern-Western Identities through Music: A Turkish Story; Voices from the Living Heart: Healing Australia's Dark Past; Music and Human Rights: Towards a Paradoxical Approach; Music Therapy: Connecting through Music; Music Therapy and Strategies for Dialogue; The Case of the Ahwâsh Dance of Morocco: A Contribution of the Specific to the Universal; Musicking and Empathic Connections; Making Musical Space for Peace