ABSTRACT
The potentials of music education to transform the lives of excluded social groups is explored by Andrea Rodríguez-Sánchez, through a narrative of violence, trauma, and recovery in Colombia. She extends Galtung’s (1998) conceptualisation of the three classic forms of violence in suggesting that such long-standing conflicts also result in internalised violence – the hate of oneself. She proposes that musical spaces offer an arena for individuals to work through such internalised violence through an axiological proposal by which they might begin to construct peaceful identities, as an alternative to hate.
