Drumming and digital inclusion: music, identity formation, and transformative empowerment in Afro-Brazilian community development NGOs

Joe Straubhaar and Stuart Davis

Development in Practice, 2018, vol. 28, issue 3, 374-387

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).

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2018.1435628

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