Music, Health, and Wellbeing

by MacDonald, Raymond; Kreutz, Gunter; Mitchell, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780199586974
• ISBN10: 0199586977
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 frominternationally recognised experts, resulting in a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and pluralistic account of recent advances and applications in both clinical and non-clinical practice and research. 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 thatclosely related strands of research in different disciplines are brought together into a authoritative, comprehensive and robust collection of chapters.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Introductory Chapters: Setting the Scene
What is Music, Health, and Wellbeing and Why is it Important?	p. 3
Music, Brain, and Health: Exploring Biological Foundations of Music's Health Effects	p. 12
Why Music Matters: Philosophical and Cultural Foundations	p. 25
Music Therapy: Models and Interventions	p. 40
Community Music and Public Health
Developing Social Models for Research and Practice in Music, Arts, and Health: A Case Study of Research in a Mental Health Setting	p. 65
Community Music and Social/Health Psychology: Linking Theoretical and Practical Concerns	p. 76
The New Health Musicians	p. 87
Musical Flourishing: Community Music Therapy, Controversy, and the Cultivation of Wellbeing	p. 97
Singing, Wellbeing, and Health	p. 113
Dance and Health: Exploring Interactions and Implications	p. 125
Embodied Musical Communication Across Cultures: Singing and Dancing for Quality of Life and Wellbeing Benefit	p. 136
Music as Therapy and Health Promotion
Music and Rehabilitation: Neurological Approaches	p. 153
The Religion of Evidence-Based Practice: Helpful or Harmful to Health and Wellbeing?	p. 164
Health Musicking: A Perspective on Music and Health as Action and Performance	p. 183
Between Beats: Group Music Therapy Transforming People and Places	p. 196
Aspects of Theory and Practice in Dance Movement Psychotherapy in the UK: Similarities and Differences from Music Therapy	p. 213
Music and Pain: Evidence from Experimental Perspectives	p. 230
The Use of Music in Chronic Illness: Evidence and Arguments	p. 239
Music as Non-Pharmacological Pain Management in Clinics	p. 257
Clinical use of Music in Operating Theatres	p. 276
Educational Contexts
Songs without Words: Exploring How Music can Serve as a Proxy Language in Social Interaction with Autistic Children	p. 289
Cognitive Performance After Listening to Music: A Review of the Mozart Effect	p. 324
Music Instruction and Children's Intellectual Development: The Educational Context of Music Participation	p. 339
Health Promotion in Higher Music Education	p. 356
Music-Making as a Lifelong Development and Resource for Health	p. 367
Music Education and Therapy for Children and Young People with Cognitive Impairments: Reporting on a Decade of Research	p. 383
Everyday Uses
Music, Subjective Wellbeing, and Health: The Role of Everyday Emotions	p. 405
Epidemiological Studies of the Relationship Between Musical Experiences and Public Health	p. 424
The Brain and Positive Biological Effects in Healthy and Clinical Populations	p. 436
Psychoneuroendocrine Research on Music and Health: An Overview	p. 457
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Music and Health	p. 477
The Effects of Background Music on Health and Wellbeing	p. 491
Pop Music Subcultures and Wellbeing	p. 502
Music Listening and Mental Health: Variations on Internalizing Psychopathology	p. 513
Author Index	p. 531
Subject Index	p. 543
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