1st Edition
Musical Pathways in Recovery Community Music Therapy and Mental Wellbeing
List of Figures
Preface
Part I - Musical Pathways
Part II - Continuous Outcomes
Part III - Musical Recovery
Coda by Sarah Wilson
Appendix A: About Method: How we wrote this book
Appendix B: How we negotiated the ethics of this project
Bibliography
Biography
Gary Ansdell is an experienced music therapist, trainer and researcher. He has published widely in the fields of music, music therapy, and music and health/wellbeing, and is co-editor, with the music sociologist Tia DeNora, of the Ashgate series Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives.
Tia DeNora is Professor of Sociology of Music, in Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at Exeter University, UK. She is the author of Music-in-Action, Music in Everyday Life, After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology and Beethoven and the Construction of Genius. She directs the SocArts Research Group at Exeter.
’This is a beautifully written and meticulously researched book by two of the most influential and innovative thinkers researching the links between music and health. It is concisely and clearly written in a style that will have broad appeal and combines psychological and sociological insights with descriptions of practical activities in a sophisticated yet entertaining way. I really enjoyed reading it and will recommend it to all my students, colleagues and indeed anyone interested in understanding more about how everyday music activities can have deep and profound effects on how we think and feel.’ Raymond Macdonald, University of Edinburgh, UK
