BOOKS
At the heart of Adriana Jaramillo Aguilera’s work lies a simple yet powerful question:
how do we communicate when words are no longer enough?
Through research, storytelling, and artistic inquiry, Adriana explores music and art as tools for connection, empathy, and healing in societies shaped by conflict and fragmentation.
Her work invites readers to reflect on memory, trauma, and the human capacity to create meaning — both individually and collectively.
This website is a space to explore those journeys through her books, each one rooted in lived experience, research, and a deep belief in art’s transformative power.
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Music Healing Journeys
Music as communication. Music as empathy. Music as healing.
Music Healing Journeys is a Fulbright-funded research project developed at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The book examines how music can foster communication, dialogue, and peacebuilding in deeply divided societies.
Drawing from observations, interviews, and surveys conducted during selected 2024–2025 performances, the project explores how both producing and listening to music can open emotional pathways that words alone often cannot.
Through engagement with music, listeners and musicians alike may:
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Reinterpret personal and collective trauma
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Challenge stereotypes and preconceived narratives
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Create new meanings and shared emotional spaces
This book offers profound insights into how music supports healing — not only for individuals, but for entire communities navigating conflict, memory, and reconciliation.
Very interesting insights into music, culture and human interactions, something we desperately need in today’s world! Thank you for publishing this work!
Very interesting and insightful
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Recent Books
MIRARSE AL ESPEJO
Colombia un Retrato a través de la Historia del Arte
In a globalized world, where fragmented societies are increasingly polarized and extreme — where peace constantly moves closer or farther away — the search for constructive exchanges becomes essential. Art, through its universal language, holds immense potential to converse and discover, to engage in dialogue and understanding; fundamental conditions for developing systems of peaceful coexistence.
Through their works, artists — free of agendas beyond the expression of ideas and emotions — open the possibility for genuine, transparent, intelligent, and honest reflection. This capacity of art is crucial for breaking the cycle of hatred and contempt generated by excessive polarization, which radicalizes and ultimately paralyzes critical thinking, as is currently the case in many societies.
Alejandro Obregón, Tres Cordilleras y Dos Océanos, 1986
Colombian Art: Witness, Blade, and Reflection of History
Colombian art has been both a witness to and a narrator of the country’s past. From independence to the violence of the 20th century, artists have portrayed not only heroic moments but also the contradictions of war. In “Mirarse al espejo.
Colombia, un retrato a través de la historia del arte,” Adriana Jaramillo Aguilera argues that, rather than merely illustrating history, art makes it possible to question it—and to offer answers to a society that has often been reluctant to confront its past. That resistance is reflected in a tendency to ignore or minimize the wounds left by conflict, a kind of collective amnesia. Looking back through artistic representations is not only an act of remembrance, but also a way to confront those…
By Paula Andrea Baracaldo Barón August 6, 2025 — 7:29 PM
