Ebook: Music, health, and wellbeing

"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.This book brings together research from a number of disciplines to explore the relationship between music, health and wellbeing."--Résumé de l'éditeur.;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 effects / Eckart Altenmüller and Gottfried Schlaug -- 3. Why music matters: philosophical and cultural foundations / David J. Elliott and Marissa Silverman -- 4. Music therapy: models and interventions / Gro Trondalen and Lars Ole Bonde -- 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 health 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 and Gunter Kreutz -- 11. Embodied musical communication across cultures: siging and dancing for quality of life and wellbeing benefit / Jane Davidson and Andrea Emberly -- 12. Music and rehabilitation: neurological approaches / A. Blythe LaGasse and Michael H. Thaut -- 13. The religion of evidence-based practice: helpful or harmful to health and wellbeing? / 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 / Merćedès Pavlicevic -- 16. Aspects of theory and practice in dance movement psychotherapy in the UK: similarities and differences from music therapy / Vicky Karkou -- 17. Music and pain: evidence from experimental perspectives / Laura Mitchell and Raymond MacDonald -- 18. The use of music in chronic illness: evidence and arguments / Maria Pothoulaki, Raymond MacDonald, and Paul Flowers -- 19. Music as non-pharmacological pain management in clinics / Günther Bernatzky [and others] -- 20. Clinical use of music in operating theatres / Ralph Spintge -- 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 children's intellectual development: the educational context of music participation / Eugenia Costa-Giomi -- 24. Health promotion in higher music education / Jane Ginsborg, Claudio Spahn, and Aaron Williamon -- 25. Music-making as a 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 -- 27. Music, subjective wellbeing, and health: the role of everyday emotions / Daniel Västfjäll, Patrik N. Juslin, and Terry Hartig -- 28. Epidemiological studies of the relationship between musical experiences and public health / Töres Theorell and Gunter Kreutz -- 29. The brain and positive biological effects in healthy and clinical populations / Stefan Koelsch and Thomas Stegemann -- 30. Psychoneuroendocrine research on music and health: an overview / Gunter Kreutz, Cynthia Quiroga Murcia and Stephan Bongard -- 31. Cross-cultural approaches to music and health / Survi Saarikallio -- 32. The effects of background music on health and wellbeing / Susan Hallam -- 33. Pop music subcultures and wellbeing / Adrian C. North and David J. Hargreaves -- 34. Music listening and mental health: variations on internalizing psychopathology / Dave Miranda [and others].