This chapter compares music listening with the infant's experience of care. Several scholars
have argued that music can be used for scaffolding one's self-experience. Developmental …

This paper is an exploration of how we do things with music—that is, the way that we use
music as an “esthetic technology” to enact micro-practices of emotion regulation …

Humans have a unique interest in music that emerges remarkably early in life. Starting with
the early caregiver-infant interactions, musical input is prevalent, especially in social …

Social encounters and cognitive growth are inextricably linked in infancy, as human
interactions contribute to self-defining dispositions and serve to prime synaptic connections …

Developing infants could not survive, let alone thrive, without committed caregivers. As a
result, musical care in infancy concerns not only the infant but also the caregiver–infant …

This paper explores the powerful role of musical moments in fostering intimacy for parents
and their hospitalised infant in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Grounded in Malloch & …

Conventional views of musicality involve sensitivity, knowledge or talent for music. One
would therefore expect communicative musicality to involve the sharing of this sensitivity …

Music is at the centre of what it means to be human–it is the sounds of human bodies and
minds moving in creative, story-making ways. We argue that music comes from the way in …

The promotion of attachment behaviours between parents and infants through music-based
interventions is an emerging specialism in music therapy practice. The theoretical formations …

A growing body of research shows that the universal capacity for music perception and
production emerges early in development. Possibly building on this predisposition …