Music Beyond Borders

Cultural-heritage preservation rooted in music history centering around themes of oppression & crimes against humanity

Music for Human Rights

Music Beyond Borders (MBB) is an organization dedicated to cultural-heritage preservation, building archives, publications, film documentaries, and innovative multi-media digital projects rooted in music history centering around themes of oppression, crimes against humanity, violence, human rights, slavery, migration, and cultural encounters, from the early modern period to contemporary times. MBB explores the power of music as resistance, for survival, against trauma, to create community, identity, and memorialisation, and music as archive.

One focus is on how those suffering oppressive regimes use music to protest human rights violations and advance social justice globally. Music is a force of resistance, power, hope, survival. The unifying power of music bridges cultural gaps and languages.

MBB aims to capture the rich cultural heritage and diversity of the human experience by transforming real stories into instruments that promote public awareness and incite civic engagement to defend humanitarian values.