Through a series of vivid case studies, Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings: Does
Music Matter? documents the ways in which music brings humanity to sterile healthcare …

Playing live music with people who are ill to promote optimal states of health and well being
is as at least as enduring as the written historical record. This book explores applications of …

The potential power of music and the expressive arts to participate in and transform the
discourse of health and medicine is greater now than ever before. Most important is how …

This paper is in three sections. Section One presents a historical overview of international
initiatives that have expanded the role of music in healthcare, from the initial formalization of …

This book provides an overview of professional musicians working within the healthcare
system and explores programs that bring music into the environment of the hospital. Far from …

The use of music as an agent of health promotion or healing is not a new phenomenon,
however examination of the uses and ubiquity of music in healing practices prior to the …

A new milieu of consciousness is emerging among researchers and practitioners across
disciplines in music, the health sciences, and integrative, complementary, and alternative …

Music-based healing is utilized as a healing tool in many cultural contexts around the world.
This thesis examines the cultural practice of music therapy in the context of the larger …

This article reports on the evaluation of a new partnership between the University of the
Witwatersrand's Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC) and the Music Division at …