Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering

Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering

This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health

Why is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives, and in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book sugge

"Music triggered a healing process from within me. I started singing for the joy of singing myself and it helped me carry my recovery beyond the state I was in