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MUSIC, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING Music, health, and well-being: A review
The relationship between arts participation and health is currently very topical. Motivated by a desire to investigate innovative, non-invasive, and economically viable interventions that embrace contemporary definitions of health, practitioners and researchers across the world have been developing and researching arts inventions. One of the key drivers in this vigorous research milieu is the growth of qualitative research within health care contexts and researchers interested in exploring the potential benefits of musical participation have fully embraced the advances that have taken place in health-related qualitative research. The following article presents a number of different types of qualitative research projects focused on exploring the process and outcomes of music interventions. It also presents a new conceptual model for music, health and well-being. This new model develops on a previous version of MacDonald, Kreutz, and Mitchell (2012b) by incorporating new elements and contextualization and providing detailed experimental examples to support the various components.
International Journal of Music and Medicine
Music and noise would seem to be polar opposites: One is thought to be disruptive, whereas the other is assumed to have pleasant, positive influences. The two are, however, conjoined in the ear of the listener, often begging the question of whether a sound is music or noise. The historical background and sources of music and noise as environmental influences have changed as sound levels have increased, as the industrial and digital revolutions have afforded each a wider reach, and as music has become ubiquitous with the advent of recording, distribution, and playback technologies. In spite of ample research, the relationship of music to background sounds commonly found in hospitals has not been thoroughly examined. This article is a historical review of the theories and science of noise and music in relationship to patient outcomes, considers the ways patients make meaning from what they hear, and provides a critique of research and practices with consideration to optimizing the auditory environment for hospitalized patients.
Effects of Music on Health: The Plight of the Piper
Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2019
Music, an important tool of social and cultural value, has found relevance in healthcare and is being harnessed for therapeutic purposes. However, the art of producing music with musical instruments, has potential health benefits and hazards, which are often ignored. In this article, we review literature, and expound on the effects of playing wind instruments on the health of the player. Some authors have documented superior lung function and a lower risk of obstructive sleep apnea amongst wind instrumentalists. However, the list of health hazards associated with playing wind instruments exceed the potential benefits, with myriad cases of adverse events documented following wind instrument playing. Many of these adverse events are as a result of increased pressures (intra-thoracic, intra-abdominal, intra-ocular, intra-cranial etc.), especially with high resistance instruments, when delivering high pitches and volumes. It is recommended that wind instrument players be aware of the po...
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Musical Societies in the Valencian Region, Spain
Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage Economic, Cultural and Social Identity, 2021
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Guest Editorial, Music and the Arts in Health: A Perspective from the United States
2011
While music and other art forms have long been associated with health promotion, their place in health practices and the specific constructs that effect healing and wellness have been difficult to define. This guest editorial discusses the arts, and music in particular, in the contexts of traditional cultures and contemporary biomedicine, psychotherapies and community practice. Current research and the trend toward defining two distinct fields of ‘arts therapies’ and ‘arts in healthcare’ practices are discussed, as is the need for more in-depth studies of the effects of such practices in everyday life. * PO Box 100141, Gainesville, FL 3261, USA © Music and Arts in Action/Jill Sonke 2011 | ISSN: 1754-7105 | Page 5 http://musicandartsinaction.net/index.php/maia/article/view/musicarthealthusperspective Music and Arts in Action | Volume 3 | Issue 2
Health Promotion International, 2023
This article reports on findings that indicate how First Nations musical activities function as cultural determinants of health. Drawing on early findings from a 3-year Australian Research Council funded project titled The Remedy Project: First Nations Music as a Determinant of Health, we detail Australian and Ni Vanuatu First Nations musicians' reported outcomes of musical activity using a First Nations cultural determinants of health framework. The broader findings indicate that our respondents see musical activity as actively shaping all known domains of cultural health determinants, and some surrounding political and social determinants. However, this paper focusses specifically on the political and economic determinants that emerged in analysis as the most dominant subthemes. We argue that this study provides strong impetus for continued investigation and reconceptualization of the place of music in cultural health determinant models. Lay summary This article looks at how making and performing music, recording music and listening to music helps the health of First Nations peoples in Australia and Ni Vanuatu. Music is an important part of the lives of First Nations peoples from these places and so research was done to try to understand why it is meaningful. Music can be used as an outlet for personal feelings, and can also be a way that groups of people can express common concerns. First Nations musicians talked about how music makes them feel, and how music is used to strengthen relationships between people, and between people and their culture. Musicians also talked about how music helps them express their political and economic goals. The findings backed up existing First Nations' models of health that say that health for First Nations People's needs to be thought about in a holistic way. The findings also showed that the relationship between music and health needs to be studied more so that we can better understand how it helps maintain links with the past, gives a guide for the present and opens options for the future.
Sounding Out: Music for Health and Wellbeing
2019
Narratives regarding the health benefits of music have existed since antiquity; in the last century, these benefits have begun to be explored in a more systematic manner. Currently, Australians across all ages, cultures and circumstances listen to music, sing, play musical instruments, or attend concerts on a regular basis. Its ubiquity and significance in society gives music unique potential to be used in a range of holistic approaches and interventions to improve health and wellbeing. many benefits have been identified, more research is required in order to identify optimal information related to evidence based practice, the economic value of applications, and education and training.
The Value of Music Research to Life in the UK
The Public Value of the Humanities, 2011
Music in daily life The powerful role of music in human experience is indisputable. Throughout history, daily musical experiences have included lullabies, children's play songs, rhythmic work songs, courtship songs, dance music, and music for religious and ritualistic ceremonies. With current technology, our daily musical experiences include music on the radio, television music, fi lm music, advertising jingles, music in restaurants and music in shops. We are no longer restricted to hearing music in homes, pubs, concert halls, schools and on village greens-we can carry our own music library around with us and hear it on buses, in cars and on walks in the country. The fact that the music industry contributes so signifi cantly to the UK economy is no accident. People love music and use it on a regular basis to relax, to entertain, to exercise, to socialize, and to share their tastes and experiences. Music is thus a powerful way to bring people together. This is particularly evident in situations where people gather for special occasions, such as at weddings, sporting events and important ceremonies, but it is also evident in everyday situations such as in nurseries, primary classrooms, nightclubs and pubs. Music seems to have a special capacity to reinforce the social group; to create a sense of shared experience in which relationships are strengthened. At the same time, music can be deeply personal, stimulating strong individual emotions and memories; a familiar piece of music can trigger a memory and immediately take us back to a particular moment, place or relationship. We can also develop strong personal musical preferences and even prejudices, which help to defi ne our individuality as well as our social group. A key aspect of daily music-making is its extraordinary potential for self-expression and creativity. With just a voice or a pursed pair of lips, an individual can experiment with ideas, try out new sounds and begin to compose. The incredible diversity of music from around the globe and across different periods of history is a tribute to such human creativity and to the way in which we respond to social conditions and technical constraints. The drive to push conventional boundaries, and create experiences that are fresh and exciting, has led to everything from pianos, electric guitars and synthesizers to vast musical works requiring enormous orchestras and multiple choirs. While humans continue to feel the creative urge to express themselves musically, music research will afford valuable insights into the nature of the human condition and its relationship with society.