How Music Helps in Music Therapy and Everyday Life
- Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (376 pages).
- Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on Referencing; A Note on Confidentiality; Introduction: Music's Help; Part I: Musical Worlds; 1 Musical Ecologies; 2 Musical Lifeworlds; Part II: Musical Experience; 3 The Music of Experience; 4 Aspects of Musical Experience; 5 Helpful Musical Experiences; Part III: Musical Personhood; 6 Musical Recognition; 7 Core Musicality; 8 Musical Identities; 9 Musical Performances; Part IV: Musical Relationship; 10 Musical Connection; 11 Musical Companionship; 12 Musical Dialogue; 13 Musical Meeting. Part V: Musical Community14 Musical Togetherness; 15 Musical Hospitality; 16 Musical Belonging; 17 Musical Ritual; Part VI: Musical Transcendence; 18 Musical Epiphany; 19 Musical Thresholds; 20 Musical Hope; Conclusion: Musical Flourishing; Appendix: A Note on Method; Bibliography; Index.
How Music Helps is not just a book about music therapy. It has the more ambitious aim to promote (from a music therapist's perspective) a better understanding of 'music and change' in our personal and social life. Ansdell's theoretical synthesis links the tradition of Nordoff-Robbins music therapy and its recent developments in Community Music Therapy to contemporary music sociology and music studies. This book will be relevant to practitioners, academics and researchers looking for a broad-based theoretical perspective to guide further study and policy in music, well-being and health.
9781409434153
Music--Psychological aspects. Music therapy. Music therapy. Music--Psychological aspects.