Music and PD

Does physical distancing (PD) have an actual influence of how and why we listen to music?

Understanding the importance of music therapies and interventions is grounded in the fundamental comprehension and influence of music to the so-called soft and hard sciences.

We live in fast changing times. Technological advances take over our lives, we lose ourselves increasingly in social media and question our existence in light of creativity, humanity and well-being. Such times require novel approaches and investigations, based on the plethora of research, knowledge and innovation we all build our lives upon. However, there remains one domain and one sub-domain in particular, which influences our lives in conscious as well as sub-conscious ways, guiding and influencing our behaviors, emotion and cognition: music. Music as no other artform or stimulus triggers multiple neural structures, promotes neural plasticity, generates group cohesion and through expression gives us a sense of freedom and existence.

 

We have to investigate music at the heart of propositional music therapy interventions, researching the arts beyond music and showing the differences between clinical and arts-based research; in doing so, it amalgamates different research designs and setups into one overall research environment, where the clinic meets the arts and classroom and where music possibly acts as the glue between cultures.