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    Harmonious Relations: A Framework for Studying Varieties of Peace in Music-Based Peacebuilding
    Howell, G (SAGE Publications, 2020)
    This article presents an analytical framework for systematically studying the relationships portrayed within music-based peacebuilding and their respective representations of peace. Music activities with peacebuilding objectives work predominantly within a relational concept of peace, bringing into existence relationships between sounds, people, and spaces through which behaviours such as non-dominance and cooperation can be enacted. However, each of these relationships can communicate different ideas about peace and its manifestation, communications that may be inconsistent with each other and with the activity’s peaceful intentions. The “harmonious relations” framework that this article introduces is a tool for capturing and analysing these embedded relationships and representations. It uses concepts of harmony as a heuristic for critically appraising music’s potential contributions to peace in development contexts, synthesising ideas about relationships in peace and music from peace studies, musicology, philosophy and anthropology. The case of the Zohra Ensemble from Afghanistan illustrates its application.
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    From imitation to invention: Issues and Strategies for the ESL Music Classroom
    Howell, G (Australian Council of Orff Schulwerk, 2009-07-01)
    For child immigrants and refugees to Australia, school can present a minefield of challenges to navigate, from unfamiliar language to the rules and conventions of Australian school culture. Music offers such children a potent means of expression and connection with others, and is way in which many experience their first feelings of success in school here. However, developing musical creativity in English as Second Language [ESL] settings poses challenges for music educators in building student understanding of the intentions of the tasks. This article discusses some of the arising issues and offers three strategies from the author’s experiences as a music teacher in a Melbourne English Language School.
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    Harmony
    Howell, G (University of Exeter, 2018)
    Harmony’s semantic links across music and the social domain mean that when evoked in the context of music in peacebuilding, harmony provides both a description of musical action, and an aspirational projection of the desired social outcome. However, in both domains, harmony’s foundational values and implied practices raise questions of how apt it is as a representation, tool, or goal of contemporary peacebuilding. This article seeks to answer these questions. Conceptual in scope, it examines the multiple concepts attached to harmony in the musical and sociocultural domains, and discusses these in relation to peacebuilding, illustrating some of the possible alignments and alliances with examples of cross-community music projects. It offers a heuristic for considering harmony and its values, practices, affordances, and implications from a more critical and nuanced perspective.