Music, Health, and Wellbeing

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

• ISBN13: 9780199686827
• ISBN10: 0199686823
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-06-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Raymond MacDonald, School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK,Gunter Kreutz, Professor of Systematic Musicology, Department of Music, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany,Laura Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bishop's University, Canada

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 fur 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.

Table of Contents

Section 1 Introductory Chapters
1. What is Music Health and Wellbeing and why is it important, Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, and Laura Mitchell
2. Music, Brain and Health: Exploring Biological Foundations of Music's Health Effect, Eckart Altenmuller & Gottfried Schlaug
3. Why Music Matters: Philosophical and Cultural Foundation, David J. Elliott & Marissa Silverman
4. Music Therapy: model and interventions, Gro Trondalen & Lars Ole Bonde
Section 2: Community Music and Public Health
5. Developing social models for research and practice in music, arts and health: a case study of research in a mental health setting, Norma Daykin
6. Community music and social/health psychology: linking theoretical and practical concerns, Michael Murray and Alexandra Lamont
7. The new Heaths Musicians, Even Ruud
8. Musical Flourishing: Community Music Therapy, Controversy and the Cultivation of Wellbeing, Gary Ansdell and Tia DeNora
9. Singing, Wellbeing and Health, Stephen Clift
10. Dance and Health: Exploring interactions and implications, Cynthia Quiroga Murcia, & Gunter Kreutz
11. Embodied Musical Communication Across Cultures: Singing and dancing for quality of life and wellbeing benefit, Jane Davidson & Andrea Emberly
Section 3 Clinical and Therapeutic Applications
12. Music and Rehabilitation: Neurological Approaches, A. Blythe LaGasse & Michael Thaut
13. The religion of Evidence-based practice: Helpful or harmful to health and well-being?, Tony Wigram and Christian Gold
14. Health Musicking - A Perspective on Music and Health as Action and Performance, Brynjulf Stige
15. Between Beats: group music therapy transforming people and places, Mercedes Pavlicevic
16. Aspects of Theory and Practice in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) in the UK: Similarities and Differences from Music Therapy, Vicky Karkou
17. Music and Pain: Evidence from Experimental Perspectives, Laura Mitchell & Raymond MacDonald
18. The use of music to aid recovery from chronic illness: evidence and arguments, Maria Pothoulaki, Raymond MacDonald and Paul Flowers
19. Music as non-pharmacological pain management in clinics, Gunther Bernatzky, Simon Strickner, Michaela Presch, Franz Wendtner, Werner Kullich
20. Clinical Uses of Music in Operating Theatres, Ralph Spintge
Section 4 Educational Contexts
21. Songs without words: Exploring how music can serve as a proxy language in social interaction with autistic children, Adam Ockelford
22. Cognitive performance after listening to music: A review of the Mozart effect, E. Glenn Schellenberg
23. Music instruction and children1s intellectual development: The educational context of music participation, Eugenia Costa-Giomi
24. Health Promotions in Higher Music Education, Jane Ginsborg, Claudia Spahn and Aaron Williamon
25. Music Making as Lifelong Development and Resource for Health, Heiner Gembris
26. Music education and therapy for children and young people with cognitive impairments: reporting on a decade of research, Adam Ockelford and Kyproulla Markou
Section 5: Everyday Uses
27. Music, Subjective Well-being, and Health: The Role of Everyday Emotions, Daniel Vastfjall, Patrik Juslin, and Terry Hartig
28. Epidemiological studies of the relationship between musical experiences and public health, Tores Theorell & Gunter Kreutz
29. The brain and positive biological effects in healthy and clinical populations, Stefan Koelsch & Thomas Stegemann
30. Psychoneuroendocrine research on music: An overview, Gunter Kreutz, Cynthia Quiroga Murcia & Stephan Bongard
31. Cross Cultural Approaches to Music and Health, Suvi Saarikallio
32. The Effects of Background Music on Health and Wellbeing, Sue Hallam
33. North Pop Music Subcultures and Well-Being, Adrian C. North and David J. Hargreaves
34. Music Listening and Mental Health: Variations on Internalizing Psychopathology, Dave Miranda, Patrick Gaudreau, Regine Debrosse, Julien Morizot, Laurence J. Kirmayer