This article explores the ways in which the relationships between music, health, wellbeing,
medicine, and ethnomusicology are being researched internationally. It shows that while …

Music has been shown to serve as a source of health and wellbeing in cultures around the
world (eg Gouk 2001; Koen 2009). Yet, to date, little cross-cultural research has been …

Interest in relationships between music, health, and wellbeing has been thriving in several
fields of practice and study for a number of years. A review of the literature (Bonde 2008) …

Foreword to" Musical life stories: narratives on health musicking".-Musical Life Stories makes
an important and significant contribution to thes refreshing and remembering of practice and …

This thesis examines current developments in the research and discourse on music and
healing. Ethnomusicology has involved extensive work on documenting traditional music …

The study of how music may be important to health and well-being can be seen as an
increasingly broad and interdisciplinary field. As issues of health and well-being are …

Music is an inherently social act, and one which contains enormous potential to bring people
together and to facilitate various forms of social action. The process of engaging with other …

Confusion frequently exists around the various uses of music for health and wellbeing, and
the roles of different agents using music for health benefits. This confusion is often based on …

This paper is about informal musical learning and its link to health, well-being and the care
of self 1, an area that has already received some attention from research in music therapy …

This article considers the question of how to produce ecologically valid assessments of
music's role as a health technology. To address this question, I consider critically some of …