Project description
Understanding the power of music
People all over the world make music, especially in times of crisis. The proverbial power of music clearly is a resource, yet difficult to describe in words. The EU-funded SoundKnowledge project will study music as a form of procedural knowledge inherent in and specific to music-making. It will focus on music-making practices in Micronesia, home to islands of the Western Pacific. By addressing issues of climate change, social alienation and postcolonial trauma, the project seeks to identify strategies aimed at fostering resilience. It will ask what Western Pacific musical practices know and how they know it, how music-making makes this knowledge operable, and how people mobilise upon this knowledge in coping with their life-worlds through music.
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Funding Scheme
ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant
Host institution
37073 Gottingen
Germany
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Beneficiaries (1)
37073 Gottingen
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