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Agu, Dan. and Umezinwa, Emmanuel. "Understanding Global Harmony Through Integration and Metaphony: A Model in African Music" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISME World Conference and Commission Seminars, China Conservatory of Music (CC) and Chinese National Convention Centre (CNCC), Beijing, China, Aug 01, 2010 <Not Available>. 2013-05-19 <http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p398580_index.html>

Agu, D. C. and Umezinwa, E. C. , 2010-08-01 "Understanding Global Harmony Through Integration and Metaphony: A Model in African Music" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISME World Conference and Commission Seminars, China Conservatory of Music (CC) and Chinese National Convention Centre (CNCC), Beijing, China <Not Available>. 2013-05-19 from http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p398580_index.html

Publication Type: Spoken Paper Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The conceptual shift from musical harmony to global harmony is both ingenious and exciting. It evokes a thorough review of the keyword, harmony, its meaning, and nature. It relates immediately to the temporality surrounding the 9th century musical invention of harmony in the European tradition as well as the natural need and quest for harmony in human interactions. Cultural anthropology has shown that there are as diverse approaches to experiences, meanings, and values as there are diverse human blocs on the planet. Appeal has therefore been made to various cultures in the bid to adopt the musical behavior of harmony into a human project – global harmony, as a moment in the use of research to advance human civilization. This paper is a contribution in that regard. It attempts to understand the issue of global harmony through cultural specifics existing in various concepts of musical harmony. Thus, a unifying concept of harmony makes various cultural manifestations (epiphanies) among people of diverse musical backgrounds and experiences. While the harmonic status of some of these manifestations is easily assumed, others from other sub-cultures may not as easily enjoy such self-evident harmonic status. This paper considers some of the factors responsible for such psycho-musical predisposition. Using 2 African musical concepts, integration and metaphony, the work argues that there is a necessity for interpreting apparently diverse musical behaviors with a view to establishing global musical experiences. Based on the high philosophical frameworks of hermeneutics (the study of interpretation) and axiology (the study of values), the perennial metaphysics of one (harmony) and many (interaction, integration, balance, oneness) is implicated. The methodology adopted here is both purely ethnomusicological and multidisciplinary. An understanding of integration is advanced from its mathematical, philosophical, socio-cultural, psychological, literary, and musical points of view. A near-perfect resolution of all conflicts and discords emerges as the purpose of every form of harmony.

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