Musical Life Stories: Narratives on Health Musicking
To music's health is a narrative and reflection on the affordances of musical fandom across a life course about how young people use music as a health resource in daily life with reflections of two maturing women on one's relationship with music.
Abstract
Foreword: To music's health / Gary Andsdell. - Editor's preface. - Music, the life trajectory and existential health / Lars Lilliestam. - Life stories : lay musical practices among men and women with long-term sickness absence / Kari Bjerke Batt-Rawden. - A young woman's narrative on the role of mobile music in coping with everyday life / Marie Strand Skanland. - It just makes you feel really good : a narrative and reflection on the affordances of musical fandom across a life course / Jill Halstead. - Music, adolescents and health : narratives about how young people use music as a health resource in daily life / Hege Bjornestol Beckmann. - Is music really my best friend? : reflections of two maturing women on one's relationship with music / Katarina Skewes McFerran & Kelly Baird. - Then certain songs came : music listening in the grieving process after loosing a child / Torill Vist & Lars Ole Bonde. - Music, grief and life crisis / Even Ruud. - Musical performance as health promotion : a musician's narrative / Gro Trondalen. - Music therapy in everyday life, with 'the organ as the third therapist' / Randi Rolvsjord. - Less comfortably numb, more meaningfully occupied / Steve Hooper & Simon Procter. - Healing singing / Renate Gretsch. - Together! : RagnaRock, the band and their musical life story / Karette Stensaeth & Tom Naess. - Evaluation of community music therapy : why is it a problem? / Stuart Wood. - The musical identities of Danish music therapy students : a study based on musical autobiograpies / Lars Ole Bonde. - Music and talk in tandem : the production of micro-narratives in real time / Tia DeNora. - Authors' personal narratives. - Author information