Part one of the three-part series on Together, Somehow explores structures and politics of belonging, cultural tightness and looseness, and understandings of translocal culture. Looking specifically at nightlife and rave scene subculture, we lo

World Music Drumming Legacies and Visions

Apr 6th, 2024 44m 58s

World Music Drumming offers opportunities for teachers to enrich general music curricula through ensemble-centered explorations of diverse musics. This episode with Patty Bourne, director of World Music drumming, explores the legacy of Will Sch

Dignity, Kindness, and Social Identity

Jan 20th, 2024 50m 4s

This interview with Dr. Mica Estrada explores her work in researching belonging, social identity, and kindness. Beginning with an exploration of impostor phenomena, we first explore stories about Donna Hicks’s direct experience at being affirme

Dignity and Self Expansion with Dr. Donna Hicks

Dec 16th, 2023 54m 10s

This is the first in a two-part series on dignity, belonging, awe, humility, kindness, and identity. In this first episode, we spend time with Dr. Donna Hicks to discuss the magic of dignity language, a South African heritage of Mandela Conscio

Sound Connects Us: Belonging, Synchrony, Language, and Noise

Nov 4th, 2023 32m 12s

Part two of the conversation with Dr. Nina Kraus examines how we find our sense of belonging within our sonic worlds. Speaking of how sound connects us, we enter dialogues about modulations of harmony, synchrony, the power of singing, and how m

Sound Connects Us: Betweenness of Sonic Experience

Oct 28th, 2023 30m 51s

In this two-part series with Dr. Nina Kraus we examine the neuroscience of our hearing brains, exploring how we make meaning from our sonic worlds. In episode 1, we look at the afferent and efferent journeys as our brains construct meaning from

Dancing the Dance of Emotions Between Us

Sep 29th, 2023 51m 50s

Exploring the research of Batja Mesquita and other cultural psychologists and social psychologists, this episode examines how emotions are enacted between humans. Challenging the US-centric worldview that emotions are only within an individual,

Re-membering Ourselves Home through Breath and Voice

Aug 12th, 2023 53m 31s

This episode explores the work of Taína Asili, her album Resiliencia, and the many voices that inspired her work in this album. As we understand notions of belonging, we explore Puerto Rican heritage, alternative voices of punk culture, languag

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Season Four Trailer

Jun 30th, 2023 2m 28s

What does it mean to belong? This question and other fascinating questions on belonging will be explored in season four of the music and peacebuilding podcast. Our topics will include musical reclamations, musical identities, the neuroscience o

Dialogues of Courage, Wisdom, and Compassion with Olivier Urbain, Kevin Maher, and Anri Tanabe

Dec 22nd, 2022 50m 53s

This is the second in a two-episode series exploring the legacy of Daisaku Ikeda and the practice of dialogue. In this episode, we ask how wisdom, courage, and compassion is lived and practiced through music and dialogue. In particular, we look

Courage, Wisdom, and Compassion with Olivier Urbain: Ikeda’s Story

Dec 17th, 2022 40m 25s

This is a two-episode series exploring the legacy of Daisaku Ikeda and the practice of dialogue through interconnectedness and a human revolution of courage, wisdom, and compassion. In this episode, we explore the legacy and history of Johan Ga

Crossing Thesholds and Passages in Shakuhachi Practice with Kiku Day

Nov 19th, 2022 40m 17s

This second episode of a two-part series with Kiku Day explores shakuhachi soundings of cultural translation and peacebuilding. With the famous honkyoku piece, Tamuke, we encounter the problems of cultural translation and how a piece about pass

Sounding Flow and Silence in Shakuhachi Practice with Kiku Day

Nov 5th, 2022 33m 41s

This first episode of a two-part series with Kiku Day explores shakuhachi history and how the shakuhachi is taught and learned. Central to shakuhachi are traditions of flow and the use of silence or absence through the language of ma. Recording

Reflective Celebrations of 10,000 Downloads

Sep 15th, 2022 43m 8s

Bringing together Dan Shevock, Jon Rudy, and Tyné Angela Freeman, this is a reflective episode about the first three years of this podcast. Exploring notions of story, spirituality, theoretical framework, and the notion of a lived walk, this is

Dynamic Samul Nori and Intentional Difference

Sep 3rd, 2022 56m 37s

Samul nori represents a modern percussion genre of four things - the changgo, buk, k’kwaenggwari , and ching. Originally known as p’ungmul and nongak this genre was transformed as dynamic as it entered concert spaces. Comprised of karak that dy

Who We Be: Agency, Performativity, and Collegiate A Cappella

Aug 6th, 2022 33m 36s

In this podcast, we take a tour with Dr. Brent Talbot on Talbot and Mantie’s research into American collegiate a cappella singing through the lens of agency, performativity, and leisure. Our performances of gender, sexuality, and identity are o

Who We Be: Collectivist Agency and Balinese Gamelan

Jul 23rd, 2022 40m 40s

In this podcast, we take a tour with Dr. Brent Talbot Balinese gamelan through the lens of agency and performativity. Exploring diverse cultures of Bali and the US, we ask questions of how we construct agency and stories of our performances in

Building Changed Spaces for Peacebuilding in Filipino Contexts

Jun 25th, 2022 51m 34s

Wendy Kroeker explores her research on peacebuilding and conflict resolution in the Philippines and the island of Mindanao. Exploring the root causes of violence, we examine histories of colonialism impacting Moro, Lumad, and the Filipino resid

Beauty Beneath the Surface: Composing Change with the Japanese Koto

May 28th, 2022 32m 44s

Masayo Ishigure is a world-renowned performer of the Japanese koto. This conversation explores the legacies of Tadao Sawai, Kazue Sawai, Michio Miyagi, and Japanese traditions of composing for the koto. Exploring notions of wabi-sabi, the Meiji

Constructing an Activist Music Education with Juliet Hess

Apr 7th, 2022 37m 19s

Drawing upon the input of 20 activist musicians, Dr. Juliet Hess wrote a book about building curricula that support noticing, naming, and coming to voice. Building from Paulo Freire’s understandings from the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Hess offe

Tajik Maddâh, Healing, and Flexible Framing with Dr. Benjamin Koen

Mar 19th, 2022 51m 53s

The music of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan offers opportunities to explore the importance of poetry, rhythmic flexibility, and sacred space within wellness and healing. Dr. Benjamin Koen is a leader in medical ethnomusicology who has writte

Sounding Tuvan Hospitalities of Place with Theodore Levin

Feb 19th, 2022 54m 47s

Theodore Levin has a lifetime of scholarship in studying music, culture, and spirituality of Central Asia and Siberia. His book on Tuvan Singing opens new understandings of melodies of timbre and musical relations with ecology and the natural w

Loving Intimacies and Interconnected Being

Jan 29th, 2022 33m 39s

Dr. Jeffery Long explores delicate balance, love, longing, devotion, intimacy, and compassion in Hindu texts. Beginning with the story of Ushas and the arrival of dawn from the Rigveda, we journey to the dance of Shiva and Shakti and understand

Surrendering to Hope and Joy with Sandeep Das

Dec 31st, 2021 40m 52s

This conversation with Sandeep Das explores the influence of Yo-Yo Ma, the generosity of musical service and Dehli to Damascus. This centers on the notion of incompleteness, shared heritages of poetry, maqams, and the unique stories that inform

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Season 3 Trailer

Dec 9th, 2021 2m 28s

Coming in January 2022, season 3 on "Silk Roads of Peace." Season 3 of the Music & Peacebuilding podcast explores Silk Roads of peace, interviewing musicians, ethnomusicologists, and authors about music and peacebuilding along historical silk r