This chapter uses the Crescendo programme in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, to evidence
the potential of music education programmes for creating positive social impact in …

Sistema Scotland is a charity “committed to improving lives and strengthening communities
through music and nurturing relationships” 1. Through its Big Noise programme, Sistema …

We previously contributed a short discussion piece to this section, which described some of
the challenges inherent in evaluating the public health impacts of an arts-based social …

One of the beauties of literature and the arts is their inherent illogicality. The act of
interpreting a poetic metaphor (or, better yet, creating that metaphor) requires the …