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Music, Health, and Wellbeing

Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, and Laura Mitchell

Abstract

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, 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 ... More

Keywords: music, jazz, musical genres, music psychology, therapy, health, wellbeing, musical interventions

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9780199586974
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Raymond MacDonald, editor
Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

Gunter Kreutz, editor
Professor of Systematic Musicology, Department of Music, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany

Laura Mitchell, editor
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bishop's University, Canada

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Section 1 Introductory Chapters: Setting the Scene

Chapter 1 What is Music, Health, and Wellbeing and Why is it Important?

Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, and Laura Mitchell

Chapter 2 Music, Brain, and Health: Exploring Biological Foundations of Music’s Health Effects

Eckart Altenmüller and Gottfried Schlaug

Chapter 3 Why Music Matters: Philosophical and Cultural Foundations

David J. Elliott and Marissa Silverman

Chapter 4 Music Therapy: Models and Interventions

Gro Trondalen and Lars Ole Bonde

Section 2 Community Music and Public Health

Chapter 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

Chapter 6 Community Music and Social/Health Psychology: Linking Theoretical and Practical Concerns

Michael Murray and Alexandra Lamont

Chapter 7 The New Health Musicians

Even Ruud

Chapter 8 Musical Flourishing: Community Music Therapy, Controversy, and the Cultivation of Wellbeing

Gary Ansdell and Tia DeNora

Chapter 9 Singing, Wellbeing, and Health

Stephen Clift

Chapter 10 Dance and Health: Exploring Interactions and Implications

Cynthia Quiroga Murcia and Gunter Kreutz

Chapter 11 Embodied Musical Communication Across Cultures: Singing and Dancing for Quality of Life and Wellbeing Benefit

Jane Davidson and Andrea Emberly

Section 3 Music as Therapy and Health Promotion

Chapter 12 Music and Rehabilitation: Neurological Approaches

A. Blythe LaGasse and Michael H. Thaut

Chapter 13 The Religion of Evidence-Based Practice: Helpful or Harmful to Health and Wellbeing?

Tony Wigram and Christian Gold

Chapter 14 Health Musicking: A Perspective on Music and Health as Action and Performance

Brynjulf Stige

Chapter 15 Between Beats: Group Music Therapy Transforming People and Places

Mercédès Pavlicevic

Chapter 16 Aspects of Theory and Practice in Dance Movement Psychotherapy in the UK: Similarities and Differences from Music Therapy

Vicky Karkou

Chapter 17 Music and Pain: Evidence from Experimental Perspectives

Laura Mitchell and Raymond MacDonald

Chapter 18 The Use of Music in Chronic Illness: Evidence and Arguments

Maria Pothoulaki, Raymond MacDonald, and Paul Flowers

Chapter 19 Music as Non-Pharmacological Pain Management in Clinics*

Günther Bernatzky, Simon Strickner, Michaela Presch, Franz Wendtner, and Werner Kullich

Chapter 20 Clinical Use of Music in Operating Theatres

Ralph Spintge

Section 4 Educational Contexts

Chapter 21 Songs Without Words: Exploring How Music Can Serve as a Proxy Language in Social Interaction with Autistic Children

Adam Ockelford

Chapter 22 Cognitive Performance After Listening to Music: A Review of the Mozart Effect

E. Glenn Schellenberg

Chapter 23 Music Instruction and Children’s Intellectual Development: The Educational Context of Music Participation

Eugenia Costa-Giomi

Chapter 24 Health Promotion in Higher Music Education

Jane Ginsborg, Claudia Spahn, and Aaron Williamon

Chapter 25 Music-Making as a Lifelong Development and Resource for Health

Heiner Gembris

Chapter 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

Chapter 27 Music, Subjective Wellbeing, and Health: The Role of Everyday Emotions

Daniel Västfjäll, Patrik N. Juslin, and Terry Hartig

Chapter 28 Epidemiological Studies of the Relationship Between Musical Experiences and Public Health

Töres Theorell and Gunter Kreutz

Chapter 29 The Brain and Positive Biological Effects in Healthy and Clinical Populations

Stefan Koelsch and Thomas Stegemann

Chapter 30 Psychoneuroendocrine Research on Music and Health: An Overview

Gunter Kreutz, Cynthia Quiroga Murcia, and Stephan Bongard

Chapter 31 Cross-Cultural Approaches to Music and Health

Suvi Saarikallio

Chapter 32 The Effects of Background Music on Health and Wellbeing

Susan Hallam

Chapter 33 Pop Music Subcultures and Wellbeing

Adrian C. North and David J. Hargreaves

Chapter 34 Music Listening and Mental Health: Variations on Internalizing Psychopathology

Dave Miranda, Patrick Gaudreau, Régine Debrosse, Julien Morizot, and Laurence J. Kirmayer

End Matter

Author Index

Subject Index