Empirical studies in the creative arts therapies (CATs; ie, art therapy, dance/movement
therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, psychodrama, and poetry/bibliotherapy) have grown …

In the age of the Internet and with the dramatic proliferation of mobile listening technologies,
music has unprecedented global distribution and embeddedness in people's lives. It is a …

Taking a cue from Erving Goffman's classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel
interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering health and illness …

Why is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives,
and in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book suggests a new way of …

Background Music therapy is a therapeutic approach that uses musical interaction as a
means of communication and expression. Within the area of serious mental disorders, the …

Preface cultural territory of the westernmost American state (Lemert, 2002: ix; Linstead,
2006: 400). As such, ethnomethodology is identified with individualist, idealist and mentalist …

Findings of a previous video analysis of creative music therapy (CMT) with premature infants
indicate that music therapy in neonatal care may contribute to more than the infant's …

" Music triggered a healing process from within me. I started singing for the joy of singing
myself and it helped me carry my recovery beyond the state I was in before I fell ill nine years …

The field of music and health has undergone major changes within the last decade. New
areas of practice, new roles and identities for music therapists, music educators, and …

A convergent parallel design was used to interrogate two sets of literature produced by
researchers investigating music, emotions and well-being: the first being 16 quantitative …