Drumming and digital inclusion: music, identity formation, and transformative empowerment in Afro-Brazilian community development NGOs. Issue 3 (3rd April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Straubhaar, Joe; Davis, Stuart
• Is Part Of: Development in practice. Volume 28:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 374
• Page End: 387
• Publication Date: 2018-04-03
• Subjects: Civil society – NGOs, Participation -- Gender and diversity – Youth -- Technology – Media, ICT -- Sub-Saharan Africa; Technical assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 338.91091724
• DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2018.1435628
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-4524

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article draws upon music training programmes developed by Afro-Brazilian activists in the city of Salvador, Bahia, as a strategy for connecting training in musical production with computer skills. Though a seemingly incongruous pairing, we argue that for Afro-Brazilian young people learning how to create music helps provide a sense of cultural identity and consciousness that helps them then move into learning about technology. This two-step process creates a sense of "transformative empowerment" where a transformation in individuals' sense of cultural identity facilitates changes in more professionalised areas addressed through the discourse on information and communications technologies for development (ICT4D).