Gillian Howell

Peaces of music: understanding the varieties of peace that music-making can foster

Gillian Howell

Journal article  |  2022  |  PEACEBUILDING

This article offers a new conceptual and theoretical model for researching music-based peacebuilding, an emerging interdisciplinar..

Exploring the order and disjuncture of music projects in places affected by war

Gillian Howell

Book Chapter  |  2022

This chapter explores the gap between the aspirations and actualities of musical-social projects in conflict-affected settings. Ap..

Creating Spaces of Music Asylum in Ethnically Divided Contexts

Gillian Howell, Solveig Korum

Journal article  |  2022  |  Conflict and Society

This article explores the ways in which arts experiences in conflicted and territorialized settings may invite a heightened engage..

Sounds of war: Music during and after human conflict

Gillian Howell

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2022

From time immemorial, organized sound has accompanied troop movements, battle, and the aftermath of war. It is used to inspire fig..

Silent Lions: Experiences of voice and collective power among adolescent girls and boys affected by conflict and violence in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey

Gillian Howell

Report  |  2021

In mid-2021, Save the Children Middle East and Eastern Europe Regional Office engaged the University of Melbourne to conduct arts-..

Configurations of hope at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music

Gillian Howell

Journal article  |  2021  |  MUSICAE SCIENTIAE

In settings of conflict and hardship, education can be a portal through which future lives are imagined. Experiences of schooling ..

A capability approach to evaluating the social impact of music residencies and touring in remote Australia

Gillian Howell, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

Journal article  |  2021  |  COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL

Abstract Evaluation is a driving concern for arts organizations the world over, and a growing requirement from phil..

A typology of social change agendas in Australian arts organizations and NGOs

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Gillian Howell

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Arts & Communities

An increasing number of creative artists, arts organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are working on socially-eng..

“First of all, be friends”: Rock music, social connection, inclusion and mobility in Kosovo and North Macedonia: An evaluation of Music Connects, a project using culture as a driver for social innovation in former Yugoslavia

Gillian Howell, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Jane Whitfield Davidson, Jill Pope

Report  |  2021

Music Connects aims to activate youth (ages 15-24) through state-of-the-art rock music education, production, and promotion progra..

Flow: Songs and stories from the Fitzroy Valley

Gillian Howell, Alan Pigram, Natalie Davey, Irene Bent, Marmingee Hand, Brenda Shaw, Cissy Nugget, Robyn Long

Recorded or Rendered Work  |  2021

The album Flow: Songs and stories from the Fitzroy Valley features a collection of songs written and recorded as part of Sound FX,..