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Music enables marginalized populations worldwide to communicate critical views. In the Global North it has also shaped images of the South’s “starving millions,” sometimes as an emotional rationale for soliciting international aid. The study examines five domains: protest music, resistance, development interventions, commodification and appropriation, and music as a global development vernacular, inviting broader debate.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nAUTHOR ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT  \nFINAL PUBLICATION INFORMATION  \nThe Sounds of Development  \nMusical Representation as A(nother) Source of Development Knowledge  \nThe definitive version of the text was subsequently published in  \nThe Journal of Development Studies, 57(8), 2021-01-12  \nPublished by Taylor and Francis and found at [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1862800](http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1862800)  \nTHE FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION OF THIS MANUSCRIPT IS AVAILABLE ON THE PUBLISHER’S PLATFORM  \nThis Author Accepted Manuscript is copyrighted by World Bank and published by Taylor and Francis. It is posted here by agreement between them. 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Your license is limited by the following restrictions:  \n(1) You may use this Author Accepted Manuscript for noncommercial purposes only under a CC BY-NC-ND  \n3.0 IGO license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo).  \n(2) The integrity of the work and identification of the author, copyright owner, and publisher must be preserved in any copy.  \n(3) You must attribute this Author Accepted Manuscript in the following format: This is an Author Accepted Manuscript by Lewis, David; Rodgers, Dennis; Woolcock, Michael The Sounds of Development © World Bank, published in the The Journal of Development Studies57(8) 2021-01-12 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO [http://](http://)[ ](http://)[creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo](creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1862800](http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1862800)  \n© 2022 World Bank  \nThe sounds of development: Musical representations as (an)other source of development knowledge  \nDavid Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock 1 Final draft: 25 November 2020  \nAbstract  \nThe experience of development, as well as understandings of and responses to it, are uniquely rendered via popular culture generally, and popular music in particular. Music has been a medium of choice through which marginalized populations all over the world convey their (frequently critical) views, while in the Global North music has also long played a prominent (if notorious) role in portraying the plight of the South’s ‘starving millions’ as an emotional pretext for soliciting funds for international aid. We discuss the relationship between music and development in five specific domains: the tradition of Western ‘protest’ music; musical resistance in the Global South; music-based development interventions; commodification and appropriation; and, finally, music as a globalised development vernacular. We present our analyses not as definitive or comprehensive but as invitations to broaden the range of potential contributions to development debates, and the communicative modalities in and through which these debates are conducted. Doing so may lead to enhancing the relevance and coherence of development debates for a greater range of key stakeholders of development by making them more open, authentic, and compelling.  \nIntroduction  \nTo our knowledge there has been little research to date on the relationship between global development and popular music – for example, on the ways in which familiar development themes are rendered in popular music, or how music might constitute part of development interventions.2 As with our earlier explorations of popular representations of development in the contexts of novels and films, 3 this article makes the case that music is a useful but largely unexplored repository of knowledge about development that also critically helps to shape its ideas, perceptions and practices. 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