The great saxophonist Charlie Parker once proclaimed "if you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn". This quote has often been used to explain the hedonistic lifestyle of many jazz greats; however, but it also signals the reciprocal and inextricable relationship between music and wider social, cultural and psychological variables. This link is complex and multifaceted and is undoubtedly a central component of why music has been implicated as a therapeutic
agent in vast swathes of contemporary research studies. Music is always about more than just acoustic events or notes on a page. Music has a universal and timeless potential to influence how we feel.
Yet, only recently, have researchers begun to explore and understand the positive effects that music can have on our wellbeing - across a range of cultures and musical genres.This book brings together research from music psychology, therapy, public health, and medicine, to explore the relationship between music, health and wellbeing. It presents a range of chapters from internationally recognised experts, resulting in a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and pluralistic
account of recent advances and applications in both clinical and non-clinical practice and research. Some of the questions explored include: what is the nature of the scientific
evidence to support the relationship between music, health and wellbeing? What are the current views from different disciplines on empirical observations and methodological issues concerning the effects of musical interventions on health-related processes? What are the mechanisms which drive these effects and how can they be utilised for building robust theoretical frameworks for future work? For the first time, research from disciplines including neuroscience of music,
music therapy, psychophysiology and epidemiology of music, community music and music education is synthesised and presented together to further our understanding of music and health in one single volume,
ensuring that closely related strands of research in different disciplines are brought together into a authoritative, comprehensive and robust collection of chapters. This book is a timely and unique response to an explosion of interest in the relationship between music, health, and wellbeing and will be invaluable resources for students, administrators and researchers in the humanities, social and medical sciences alike.
The great saxophonist Charlie Parker once proclaimed "if you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn". This quote has often been used to explain the hedonistic lifestyle of many jazz greats; however, but it also signals the reciprocal and inextricable relationship between music and wider social, cultural and psychological variables. This link is complex and multifaceted and is undoubtedly a central component of why music has been implicated as a therapeutic
agent in vast swathes of contemporary research studies. Music is always about more than just acoustic events or notes on a page. Music has a universal and timeless potential to influence how we feel.
Yet, only recently, have researchers begun to explore and understand the positive effects that music can have on our wellbeing - across a range of cultures and musical genres.This book brings together research from music psychology, therapy, public health, and medicine, to explore the relationship between music, health and wellbeing. It presents a range of chapters from internationally recognised experts, resulting in a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and pluralistic
account of recent advances and applications in both clinical and non-clinical practice and research. Some of the questions explored include: what is the nature of the scientific
evidence to support the relationship between music, health and wellbeing? What are the current views from different disciplines on empirical observations and methodological issues concerning the effects of musical interventions on health-related processes? What are the mechanisms which drive these effects and how can they be utilised for building robust theoretical frameworks for future work? For the first time, research from disciplines including neuroscience of music,
music therapy, psychophysiology and epidemiology of music, community music and music education is synthesised and presented together to further our understanding of music and health in one single volume,
ensuring that closely related strands of research in different disciplines are brought together into a authoritative, comprehensive and robust collection of chapters. This book is a timely and unique response to an explosion of interest in the relationship between music, health, and wellbeing and will be invaluable resources for students, administrators and researchers in the humanities, social and medical sciences alike.
Section 1 Introductory Chapters
1: Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, and Laura Mitchell: What is
Music Health and Wellbeing and why is it important
2: Eckart Altenmüller & Gottfried Schlaug: Music, Brain and Health:
Exploring Biological Foundations of Music's Health Effect
3: David J. Elliott & Marissa Silverman: Why Music Matters:
Philosophical and Cultural Foundation
4: Gro Trondalen & Lars Ole Bonde: Music Therapy: model and
interventions
Section 2: Community Music and Public Health
5: Norma Daykin: Developing social models for research and practice
in music, arts and health: a case study of research in a mental
health setting
6: Michael Murray and Alexandra Lamont: Community music and
social/health psychology: linking theoretical and practical
concerns
7: Even Ruud: The new Heaths Musicians
8: Gary Ansdell and Tia DeNora: Musical Flourishing: Community
Music Therapy, Controversy and the Cultivation of Wellbeing
9: Stephen Clift: Singing, Wellbeing and Health
10: Cynthia Quiroga Murcia, & Gunter Kreutz: Dance and Health:
Exploring interactions and implications
11: Jane Davidson & Andrea Emberly: Embodied Musical Communication
Across Cultures: Singing and dancing for quality of life and
wellbeing benefit
Section 3 Clinical and Therapeutic Applications
12: A. Blythe LaGasse & Michael Thaut: Music and Rehabilitation:
Neurological Approaches
13: Tony Wigram and Christian Gold: The religion of Evidence-based
practice: Helpful or harmful to health and well-being?
14: Brynjulf Stige: Health Musicking - A Perspective on Music and
Health as Action and Performance
15: Mercédès Pavlicevic: Between Beats: group music therapy
transforming people and places
16: Vicky Karkou: Aspects of Theory and Practice in Dance Movement
Psychotherapy (DMP) in the UK: Similarities and Differences from
Music Therapy
17: Laura Mitchell & Raymond MacDonald: Music and Pain: Evidence
from Experimental Perspectives
18: Maria Pothoulaki, Raymond MacDonald and Paul Flowers: The use
of music to aid recovery from chronic illness: evidence and
arguments
19: Günther Bernatzky, Simon Strickner, Michaela Presch, Franz
Wendtner, Werner Kullich: Music as non-pharmacological pain
management in clinics
20: Ralph Spintge: Clinical Uses of Music in Operating Theatres
Section 4 Educational Contexts
21: Adam Ockelford: Songs without words: Exploring how music can
serve as a proxy language in social interaction with autistic
children
22: E. Glenn Schellenberg: Cognitive performance after listening to
music: A review of the Mozart effect
23: Eugenia Costa-Giomi: Music instruction and children¹s
intellectual development: The educational context of music
participation
24: Jane Ginsborg, Claudia Spahn and Aaron Williamon: Health
Promotions in Higher Music Education
25: Heiner Gembris: Music Making as Lifelong Development and
Resource for Health
26: Adam Ockelford and Kyproulla Markou: Music education and
therapy for children and young people with cognitive impairments:
reporting on a decade of research
Section 5: Everyday Uses
27: Daniel Västfjäll, Patrik Juslin, and Terry Hartig: Music,
Subjective Well-being, and Health: The Role of Everyday
Emotions
28: Töres Theorell & Gunter Kreutz: Epidemiological studies of the
relationship between musical experiences and public health
29: Stefan Koelsch & Thomas Stegemann: The brain and positive
biological effects in healthy and clinical populations
30: Gunter Kreutz, Cynthia Quiroga Murcia & Stephan Bongard:
Psychoneuroendocrine research on music: An overview
31: Suvi Saarikallio: Cross Cultural Approaches to Music and
Health
32: Sue Hallam: The Effects of Background Music on Health and
Wellbeing
33: Adrian C. North and David J. Hargreaves: North Pop Music
Subcultures and Well-Being
34: Dave Miranda, Patrick Gaudreau, Régine Debrosse, Julien
Morizot, Laurence J. Kirmayer: Music Listening and Mental Health:
Variations on Internalizing Psychopathology
Raymond MacDonald is Professor of Music Psychology and
Improvisation at Glasgow Caledonian University. After completing
his PhD at the University of Glasgow, investigating therapeutic
applications of music, he worked as Artistic Director for a music
company, Sounds of Progress, specialising in working with people
who have special needs. His ongoing research focuses on issues
relating to improvisation, musical communication, music therapy,
music education and
musical identities. He has co-edited three texts with Dorothy Miell
and David Hargreaves, Musical Identities (2002) and Musical
Communication (2005) and Musical Imaginations (in press). He is
currently
Editor of the journal Psychology of Music and Associate Editor for
The International Journal of Music Education, Jazz Research Journal
and Research Studies in Music Education. As a composer and
saxophonist he has recorded over 50 CDs and has toured and
broadcast worldwide.
Professor Kreutz is a trained musicologist with strong interest in
how humans respond to music and vice versa, how music influences
human cognition, emotion, and behaviour. He has published numerous
articles, book chapters and co-edited three books. His
contributions span different areas of music psychology with some
emphasis on emotion, health, and wellbeing. His research has been
supported by grants from institutions and societies including the
German Research Council (DFG), British Academy
and Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). He is
member of the Scientific Committee of the Society für Music in
Medicine.
Laura Mitchell is a health psychologist specialising in the use of
music in self-regulation of health, emotions and wellbeing, with
particular interest in music as part of pain management. Following
completion of her PhD funded by the Scottish Network for Chronic
Pain Research, she has held positions as Reader at Glasgow
Caledonian University in the UK and Visiting Professor at McGill
University in Canada, with her research funded by the British Pain
Society and Wingate Scholarships. Her
current position is part of the psychological health and wellbeing
research group at Bishop's University in Quebec.
`I really enjoyed this book as an opportunity to learn more about a
field that is almost entirely unknown to me. If the book is
anything to go by, the future of research into the interplay
between music, health and wellbeing promises to be very interesting
indeed.'
Counselling Resource, Feb 2013
`This book should be of general interest to all psychologists and,
specifically, to music therapists and those with an interest in
behavioral medicine. This volume is a useful compendium of a vast
and diverse body of international research that is beginning to
identify the mechanisms by which music has a profound effect on
cognitive and emotional states.,, it contains many fascinating
ideas.'
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