Medical Ethnomusicology and the Promise of Music, Health and Healing

Koen, Benjamin D.

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95284-7_13

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“…The paper is divided into five parts: review of impact of music listening and applications on wellbeing; introduction to X-System; reflection on autopoietic theory and the model of wellbeing; evaluation of the X-System music intervention informed by the model; discussion, conclusion and limitations of the research. relaxation and enlivenment to controlling mood, reducing anxiety, alleviating pain and more [6]- [8].…”

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confidence: 99%

Online Screening of X-System Music Playlists Using an Integrative Wellbeing Model Informed by the Theory of Autopoiesis

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Research suggests that music has a powerful effect on the human mind and body. This paper explores the impact of music as an intervention. For this purpose, the X-System technology is used to curate relaxing and enlivening music playlists designed to positively impact wellbeing and emotional state during the COVID-19 pandemic. A wellbeing model grounded in autopoietic theory of self-organisation in living systems is developed to inform the evaluation of the impact of the intervention and ensure the reliability of the data. More specifically, data quality is enhanced by focusing the participants' awareness on their immediate embodied experience of physical, emotional and relational wellbeing and sense of pleasure/displeasure prior to and after listening to a preferred playlist. The statistical analysis shows significant positive changes in emotional wellbeing, valence and sense of meaning (p < 0.001) with a medium effect size. It also reveals a statistically significant change for physical wellbeing (p = 0.009) with a small effect size. With the relaxing playlists leading to decrease in arousal levels and the enlivening playlists to an increase in activation, it is also concluded that appropriately curated playlists may be able to lead the listener to positive relaxation or activation states or indeed to positive mood change that may have health benefits.

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Online Screening of X-System Music Playlists Using an Integrative Wellbeing Model Informed by the Theory of Autopoiesis

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“…Many healing traditions, including those that incorporate lament, employ vocal/musical performance as part of therapeutic processes (e.g., Desjarlais 1992, Koen 2005, Wilce 2017). The embodied rhythmic entrainment of multiple performers making music together, and of audience members synchronizing their experience of time with performers, provides a strong intersubjective grounding for social support, healing, and other types of care (Black 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These culturally specific patterned repetitions provide poetic-musical frames that allow listeners to quickly shift among multiple perspectives on a single subject. The complex overlaying and interweaving of multiple aesthetic elements afford simultaneous consideration of those multiple perspectives (Koen 2005). At the same time, a broader Islamic moral/ethical discourse is indexed through the general aesthetic contours of this Islamic musical genre (Koen 2013).…”

Section: The Performance Of Carementioning

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The Ethics and Aesthetics of Care

Black

2018

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This article is positioned at the intersection of linguistic, medical, and psychological anthropology and reviews scholarship on the communicative processes that constitute moral/ethical care. Varying notions of care have become a leitmotif in efforts to include the analysis of agency and creativity in discussions of the lived experience of marginalization. Understandings of care have in common an emphasis on relationality and activity: Communicative activities of care both constitute and are made relevant by morally/ethically framed relationships with others and oneself. Embodied communication is central in both care activities and the constitution of moral/ethical care. From a phenomenological standpoint, communicative activities of care are simultaneously social action and embodied experience. This article reviews three key themes: ( a) the embodied linguistic constitution of care, ( b) the performance of care, and ( c) exclusion from care. Together, these themes reveal common moral/ethical–aesthetic processes that are shared across diverse social and cultural contexts.

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“…In this context, places as act significant triggers in their own right. This article aims to explore music as a way to approach such holistic healing (Koen 2018) from trauma due to the possibility that music, as representational sonic expression, may allude to different human senses and connect with place (Feld 2012;Fox 2004;Stokes 1994). In light of trauma being a sensory experience that happens in a place, we introduce the potential usefulness to trauma recovery of songwriting intended to evoke as many human senses as possible-often called, when referring to song lyrics, sense-bound imagery (Jacobsen 2017)-as well as songwriting about place.…”

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New Skies Above: Sense-bound and place-based songwriting as a trauma response for asylum seekers and refugees

Harrison

Jacobsen²,

Sunderland

2019

Journal of Applied Arts &Amp; Health

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There is sparse literature examining connections between songwriting and trauma overall, or specific connections between songwriting, trauma, the senses and place. This article presents a sense-bound and place-based approach to songwriting with and by asylum seekers and refugees. We facilitated a four-day songwriting workshop in Turku, Finland that incorporated traumainformed approaches, and whose outcomes we documented through ethnography. We responded to traumas of participants involving social isolation and relocation by encouraging use of sense-bound imagery-lyrics that communicate a multisensory experience of 'being there.' We demonstrate that songwriting can support refugees and asylum seekers in gently connecting to difficult places, while achieving respite from trauma via positive overall musical experiences. If approached in a traumainformed and-sensitive way, sense-bound songwriting that indirectly engages potential trauma triggers can offer a gentle path towards neutrally engaging the triggers-an essential step in trauma recovery.

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Medical Ethnomusicology and the Promise of Music, Health and Healing

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Online Screening of X-System Music Playlists Using an Integrative Wellbeing Model Informed by the Theory of Autopoiesis

Online Screening of X-System Music Playlists Using an Integrative Wellbeing Model Informed by the Theory of Autopoiesis

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Care

New Skies Above: Sense-bound and place-based songwriting as a trauma response for asylum seekers and refugees

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