In the past years, professional musicians of participatory music practices in healthcare contexts have increasingly worked as artistic allies for care. The musicians shaping these practices have developed ways of engaging with patients and their families, collaborating with healthcare professionals, …

Despite a renewed political and academic interest in the topic, there is still a general lack of knowledge and understanding when it comes to rurality and rural lives. At the same time, the knowledge that we do have is often distorted through a predominantly urban lens. These facts make it difficult …

Workshop tijdens het Creatief agogisch festival van Sociaal Werk opleidingIn de afgelopen jaren is muziek steeds meer erkend als een belangrijk element ter ondersteuning van welzijn in diverse vormen, van muzikale optredens tot muziektherapie. Vooral in vergrijzende samenlevingen is het belang van muzikale …

Traditionally, composers create music individually and autonomously. The egalitarian relationships in inclusive music ensembles, with their blend of conventional and technological music instruments and their focus on collaborative composing processes, however, might challenge professional composers to …

People with personality disorders (PDs) are often difficult to reach emotionally in therapy. As music therapy (MT) provides an entry point to emotions and facilitates contact and communication, it is regularly used with this target group. This study presents a case study of a 40-year-old woman diagnosed …

Music can touch people deeply, and lead to wellbeing as an all-encompassing word for everything that makes life worth living, or at least can make it liveable. Musicians can play an important role in these processes, not as pseudo-therapists, but from their own artistic identity, with an approach in …

Purpose This paper sets out to compare different methodologies for measuring the value(s) of live popular music and to explore the different motivations amongst a range of organisations engaged in that work. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyse how the values of live music are measured, who …

Youth and politics generally seem to have a particularly problematic relationship. When politicians talk about young people, it is often because they are seen as the cause or victims of social problems. Examples are the curfew riots and partying young people in Amsterdam's Vondelpark in 2021, but also …

As a result of the COVID-19 measures, many people experienced social isolation and a lack of meaningful contact, especially vulnerable elderly people. For a specific group of musicians specialized in person-centred artistically-led participatory practices in healthcare settings, this sparked the exploration …

Meaningful Music in Health Care (MiMiC) is a bottom-up exploratory research project with the goal of developing a contextually well-informed artistic participatory music practice for professional musicians seeking to work in hospitals. The joint research brings together qualitative researchers, musicians …