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Performing Empowerment: Children's Rights And Musical Participation In Dakar, Senegal, Lynne Stillings
Performing Empowerment: Children's Rights And Musical Participation In Dakar, Senegal, Lynne Stillings
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This dissertation provides a critical examination of how music is used to introduce concepts of children’s rights to children and youth in Dakar, Senegal. I explore why music has been chosen as a tool of engagement and promotion, building on Senegal’s history of youth activism and music as a grassroots tool for inspiring social change and sparking political movements. Both international NGOs and local programs use musical activities, centering children as performers and songwriters, to address rights in Senegal including girls’ equality, the right to education, early marriage, violence towards women and children, access to healthcare, and street children. Outside …