Caring for Music

Musical Life, Late Life
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-16657-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives

Caring for Music takes us into the everyday musical life of ‘Hill House’ - a residential care home – to offer a moving portrait of a music therapist working alongside residents, care staff, family and friends over many years. The book documents the rich musical practices that emerge when people care for music together. Readers gain access to innovative micro-methods for documenting music-in-action, revealing often-unnoticed capabilities and contributions from residents, staff, and visitors alike. Music is not seen as a magical solution for managing symptoms within a ‘tragic situation’. Instead, shared, creative music-making fosters moments of connection, relationship, community, celebration and shared pleasure for everyone in the home; a means of genuine person-centred caring.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ansdell, Gary

Denora, Tia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Musiktherapie, Kunsttherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part One – Setting the Scene

Part Two – Following People & Music

CAPABILITY
MOVING

PERSONHOOD
REACHING
HOME
LATE LIFE

Further Reading

Section Summaries

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Ansdell is an experienced music therapist, trainer, researcher and author. He is currently an Associate of Nordoff & Robbins UK and Honorary Professor at Exeter University. His research centres on the tradition of Nordoff-Robbins music therapy and Community Music Therapy. He lives in Norwich UK, where he works in a care home as a music therapist and is also a deputy singer in Norwich cathedral choir. Gary is author/co-author of seven books on music therapy/music and health and joint editor (with Tia DeNora) of the Routledge book series Music and Change.

Tia DeNora is Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. Her research is in music sociology, music and wellbeing, science and technology studies, social theory and research methods. She collaborated with Gary Ansdell, Wolfgang Schmid and Fraser Simpson on the Care for Music Project. She has published widely on music and mental health, cultural theory, historical musicology, hope, health technology and research methods. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.