Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors     ix
Preface   Olivier Urbain     xii
Foreword   Peter van den Dungen     xv
Acknowledgements     xvii
Multimedia Material Accompanying this Volume     xix
Introduction   Olivier Urbain     1
Frameworks
Music and Empathy   Felicity Laurence     13
Music: A Universal Language?   Cynthia Cohen     26
Music and Value in Cross-Cultural Work   June Boyce-Tillman     40
Peace, Music and the Arts: In Search of Interconnections   Johan Galtung     53
Politics
Music as a Tool of Reconciliation in South Africa   Anne-Marie Gray     63
We Shall Overcome: The Roles of Music in the US Civil Rights Movement   Baruch Whitehead     78
Music as a Discourse of Resistance: The Case of Gilad Atzmon   Karen Abi-Ezzi     93
Unpeaceful Music   George Kent     104
Healing and Education
Music Behind Bars: Testimonies of Suffering, Survival and Transformation   Kjell Skyllstad     115
Healing Cultural Violence: "Collective Vulnerability" through Guided Imagery with Music   Vegar Jordanger     128
Music Therapy: Healing, Growth, Creating a Culture ofPeace   Maria Elena Lopez Vinader     147
Managing Conflicts through Music: Educational Perspectives   Kjell Skyllstad     172
Stories from the Field
Working in the Trenches: Surviving Conflicts through Folk Music and Tales   Rik Palieri     187
Art for Harmony in the Middle East: The Music of Yair Dalal   Olivier Urbain     201
Music and Peacemaking in Educational Contexts   June Boyce-Tillman     212
Index     229