Composing Aid: Music, Refugees, and Humanitarian Politics

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.

Author: Oliver Shao
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780253067654

About the Author

Oliver Shao is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.