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
How Music Helps is not just a book about music therapy. It has the more ambitious aim to promote (from a music therapist's perspective) a better understanding o
The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato t
Music therapists from around the world working in conventional and unconventional settings have offered their contributions to this exciting new book, presentin
What is it that makes people want to live their lives to the sound of music, and why do so many of our most private experiences and most public spectacles incor