• Call for Papers, Theme Issue: "Musical and artistic mediations" 

  MAiA Editorial Team (University of Exeter, 2011)

  Music and Arts in Action (MAiA), a refereed, multidisciplinary journal, invites submissions for a thematic issue examining mediation in music and other performance, visual and literary arts, to appear in volume 5(1), ...

• Health Musicing - Music Therapy or Music and Health? A model, empirical examples and personal reflections 

  Bonde, Lars Ole (University of Exeter, 2011)

  The field of music therapy is expanding rapidly into new areas, practices and interdisciplinary fields, as well as redefining its goals and values. Increasingly "music and health" is used to describe the field when it comes ...

• Music and Arts in Health Promotion and Death Education: The St Christopher’s Schools Project 

  Tsiris, Giorgos; Tasker, Marion; Lawson, Virginia; et al. (University of Exeter, 11 April 2011)

  The reality of death and dying is rarely discussed openly in modern Western societies, while death sometimes is even considered to be a ‘failure’ in the context of traditional, medically-focused healthcare systems. Similarly, ...

• Restoring Identity and Bringing Balance through Navajo Healing Rituals 

  Moulton, Paul F. (University of Exeter, 2011)

  The primary focus of the ceremonies of the Native American Navajo tribe is to bring balance by re-establishing harmony or hózhó. This article proposes that significant psychological and emotional benefits result from the ...

• Bambeh’s Song: Music, Women and Health in a Rural Community in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone 

  Bingley, Kate (University of Exeter, 2011)

  If we knew more about “music” as a human capability and its potential as an intellectual and affective force in human communication, society, and culture, we could use it more generally to enhance general education and to ...

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