What can’t music do?
Author(s):
Tia DeNora
Gary Ansdell
Publication Year:
2014
Type:
journal article
Journal/Book Title
Psychology of Well-Being
Publisher
Editor(s):
Pages:
Volume:
4
Issue:
1
Abstract:
Background: In this article we consider how the question of what music can or cannot do is linked to the kind of light cast upon musical engagement and its outcomes. Methods: We describe how a concern with flourishing, as opposed to a concern with more conventional understandings of ‘health’ versus ‘illness’, can help to illuminate some of otherwise invisible processes by which music ‘helps’. Results: We show how the processes by which music ‘helps’ can slip past modes of enquiry associated with more ‘scientific’ and ‘rigorous’ investigate modes. Conclusions: A focus on flourishing challenges more conventional imageries of what comes to count as ‘evidence’ of music’s role in relation to health and well-being.
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http://www.psywb.com/content/4/1/23Citation (Chicago Author-Date):
DeNora, Tia, and Gary Ansdell. 2014. “What Can’t Music Do?” Psychology of Well-Being 4 (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13612-014-0023-6.