The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being (Routledge Music Companions)

In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic.Scientific research and new neuro-imaging technologies have provided extraordinary new insights into how music affects our brains and bodies, and researchers in fields ranging from psychology and music therapy to history and sociology have turned their attention to the question of how music relates to mind, body, feelings and health, generating a wealth of insights as well as new challenges.Yet this work is often divided by discipline and methodology, resulting in parallel, yet separate discourses.In this context, The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Well-being seeks to foster truly interdisciplinary approaches to key questions about the nature of musical experience and to demonstrate the importance of the conceptual and ideological frameworks underlying research in this field.Incorporating perspectives from musicology, history, psychology, neuroscience, music education, phil