Musical Pathways in Recovery - Ansdell, Gary; Denora, Tia
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This book explores the experiences of people who took part in a vibrant musical community for people experiencing mental health difficulties. Ansdell and DeNora describe their long-term ethnographic work with this group, charting the creation and development of a unique music project. They track the 'musical pathways' of a series of key people within the community, focusing on changes in health and social status over time in relation to their musical activity. This innovative book will be of interest to anyone working in the mental health field, but also music therapists, sociologists, musicologists, music educators and ethnomusicologists.…mehr

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This book explores the experiences of people who took part in a vibrant musical community for people experiencing mental health difficulties. Ansdell and DeNora describe their long-term ethnographic work with this group, charting the creation and development of a unique music project. They track the 'musical pathways' of a series of key people within the community, focusing on changes in health and social status over time in relation to their musical activity. This innovative book will be of interest to anyone working in the mental health field, but also music therapists, sociologists, musicologists, music educators and ethnomusicologists.
Autorenporträt
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.