Sister disciplines? Music and Medicine in historical perspective

Gouk, Penelope

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“…Ethnomusicologists ideally work indepth in communities longitudinally, over many years. In taking such a methodological approach, I contribute to the tradition of medical ethnomusicology, which works broadly with health and well-being issues in musical cultures (Gouk, 2000;Koen, Lloyd, Barz, & Brummel-Smith, 2008). I put ethnomusicology to use in a way that works towards the solving of concrete social problems within academe and beyond (Harrison, Mackinlay, & Pettan, 2010;Pettan & Titon, 2015).…”

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The social potential of music for addiction recovery

Harrison

2019

Music & Science

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This article examines music and music scholarship vis-à-vis research findings in addictions sciences. It explains how music is socially useful for preventing and treating addiction. Making music with others, and all of the social and cultural activities that go into doing so—musicking—can foster psychosocial integration and social cohesion, via specific cultural and musical mechanisms, and in ways that can salve addictions. Alexander’s social dislocation theory of addiction serves as the theoretical framework for the study. I draw empirical support for the discussion from my long-term ethnographic fieldwork on Indigenous addiction rehabilitation settings in Vancouver, Canada. My analysis of those settings finds that connecting socially via musicking in ways that can prevent and treat addiction happens through different ways of being, ideas and focuses of attention—such as constructs of ethnicity, around spirituality/religion, and social and political values—that are shared among musicking people and perceived via their eight senses (the auditory, visual, tactile, gustatory, olfactory, vestibular, proprioceptive, and interoceptive). This article responds to a lack of music and cultural research on the correlation between social disconnection and addiction as well as a lack of study on the social potential of musical cultures to prevent and treat addictions. The article lays groundwork for future research on the roles that musicking can play in addiction recovery.

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The social potential of music for addiction recovery

Harrison

2019

Music & Science

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“…Music therapy's professionalization came as no surprise in these stressful post-World War years when the boundaries of medical, musical and even military expertise collided and subsequent issues around professional interests arose. 23 Music may have opened a door to novel ways of restoring harmony to a society that had been traumatised by the destruction of war. 2 Thus the need for musicians who were trained to work in hospitals grew and a distinctive avenue of pursuit became apparent for the profession of music therapy.…”

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Music therapy’s development in mental healthcare: An historical consideration of early ideas and intersecting agents.

McCaffrey

2015

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Considering the history and development of music therapy in mental health is important in providing practitioners of the field with an understanding of the context in which the profession has emerged. The shaping of the discipline towards professionalization has involved multiple intersecting agents, ideas and processes over many years. This paper reviews some of the milestones and significant junctures that framed the practice of music therapy in mental health care whilst noting how some of these ingredients have been amplified or diminished over time. The author observes the numerous references to the ‘soul’ and ‘spirit’ along this trajectory and asks if such narratives are being lost in descriptions of contemporary music therapy practice in mental health.

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“…I eit historisk perspektiv er det er vel dokumentert at musikk er brukt som terapeutisk reiskap sidan antikken sine dagar, og at musikken sin helande verknad har vore og er framleis ein sentral komponent i mange kulturar (sjå til dømes Gouk, 2000;Bonde, Nygaard Pedersen & Wigram, 2012;Trondalen, 2006;Ruud, 1998Ruud, , 1987Horden, 2000).…”

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Paradoks Som Moglegheitskapande Ressurs I Kriminalomsorga

Tuastad¹

2015

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Can music be a liberating practice in prison? Can release from prison still lead to imprisonment in a ‘prison of freedom’? Can a past as a criminal become a resource? Can exclusion from society imply inclusion in a culture of rock music? If one rejects to be a group of self-help does it nevertheless imply that one receives help and support from each other in a rock band? In this article these paradoxes are discussed based on the doctoral theses Innanfor og utanfor – Rockens rolle innan kriminalomsorg og ettervern (Tuastad 2014a). The thesis is based on experiences from the Norwegian project ”Music in Custody and Liberty”, and on an action research project with the rock band Me and the BAND’its. In addition to the findings in the thesis, the topic is analyzed with theory from community music therapy and socio-cultural perspectives.

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Sister disciplines? Music and Medicine in historical perspective

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The social potential of music for addiction recovery

The social potential of music for addiction recovery

Music therapy’s development in mental healthcare: An historical consideration of early ideas and intersecting agents.

Paradoks Som Moglegheitskapande Ressurs I Kriminalomsorga

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