Deep listening : towards an imaginative reframing of health and well-being practices in international development

Arts & Health
Mercédès Pavlicevic, Angela Impey

Abstract

This paper challenges the "intervention-as-solution" approach to health and well-being as commonly practised in the international development sector, and draws on the disciplinary intersections between Community Music Therapy and ethnomusicology in seeking a more negotiated and situationally apposite framework for health engagement. Drawing inspiration from music-based health applications in conflict or post-conflict environments in particular, and focusing on case studies from Lebanon and South Sudan respectively, the paper argues for a re-imagined international development health and well-being framework based on the concept of deep listening. Defined by composer Pauline Oliveros as listening which "digs below the surface of what is heard … unlocking layer after layer of imagination, meaning, and memory down to the cellular level of human experience" (Oliveros, 2005), the paper explores the methodological applications of such a dialogic, discursive approach with reference to a range of related listening stances - cultural, social and therapeutic. In so doing, it explores opportunities for multi-levelled and culturally inclusive health and well-being practices relevant to different localities in the world and aimed at the re-i...Continue Reading

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Apr 8, 2011·Journal of Public Health·Matthew CastledenGiovanni Leonardi

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