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CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON MUSIC AND HUMANITARIAN NARRATIVES Luis Velasco-Pufleau is a musicologist and electroacoustic music composer. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg and associated research fellow at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris (Humanitarian studies platform and ANR research programme Sortir de la violence). His research focuses on political, historical, and aesthetics issues of music and sound, in particular related to conflict and violence. After completing his Ph.D. in Music and musicology at Sorbonne University in 2011, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and University of Salzburg, as well as a Balzan visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. He is an editorial board member of the journal Transposition, Music and Social Sciences and editor of the open access research blog Music, Sound and Conflict. References Badiou, Alain. (2002 [1993]) Ethics: An Essay of the Understanding of Evil. London: Verso. Boltanski, Luc. (1999 [1993]) Distant Suffering: Morality, Media, and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chouliaraki, Lilie. (2013) The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism. Cambridge: Polity. Foucault, Michel. (1980 [1977]) The Confession of the Flesh. In Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977, ed. Colin Gordon, 194–228, New York, NY: Pantheon Books. Fraser, Nancy. (2008) Abnormal Justice. Critical Inquiry 34 (3): 393–422. Jeffries, Stuart. (2014) Band Aid 30 introduces a whole new world of dread and fear. The Guardian. (Accessed 13 August 2018). Rancière, Jacques. (2013) The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics. In Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics, 184–202, London: Bloomsbury Academic. Velasco Pufleau, Luis. (2013) Chansons humanitaires, dépolitisation des conflits et moralisation des relations internationales à la fin de la Guerre froide. Relations Internationales (156): 109–123. ________ (2014) Reflections on Music and Propaganda. Contemporary Aesthetics 12. (Accessed 13 August 2018). 31