TY - JOUR AU - Parker, Deborah AU - Gentili, Dario AU - Brown, Henry AU - Balducci, Alberto PY - 2021/06/29 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Adjusting the Pitch: An Ethnographic Exploration of Action Learning in an International Music Exchange Project JF - Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy JA - Voices VL - 21 IS - 2 SE - Reflections on Practice DO - 10.15845/voices.v21i2.3075 UR - https://voices.no/index.php/voices/article/view/3075 SP - AB - <p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: medium;">The article traces the development of eight years of “Music and Resilience,” a project of international cooperation between a Palestinian NGO in Lebanon and an Italian CBO, with the aim of building music resources with, and for, the refugee communities of Lebanon. </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: medium;">Supported epistemologically by ethnography, sociology, psychology, and community music pedagogy, the paper narrates and analyzes the project's development as a multi-layered, organically orientated response to the specific geopolitical and social context, in which continuous monitoring and evaluation inform the necessary “adjustments” of the project's “pitch.” Using the paradigm of Action Learning within the framework of Theory of Social Change, the authors draw on the experience and research “Music and Resilience” has stimulated, to identify some “cardinal points” relevant to cross-cultural cooperation in general.</span></p> ER -