Music, Health and Wellbeing Exploring Music for Health Equity and So

This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing. It examines music participation as a determinant of wellbeing and as a transformative tool to impact on wider social, cultural and e

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EXPLORING MUSIC FOR HEALTH EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Edited by Naomi Sunderland, Natalie Lewandowski, Dan Bendrups, and Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

Music, Health and Wellbeing

Naomi Sunderland Natalie Lewandowski Dan Bendrups Brydie-Leigh Bartleet Editors

Music, Health and Wellbeing Exploring Music for Health Equity and Social Justice

Editors Naomi Sunderland Griffith University Meadowbrook, QLD, Australia Dan Bendrups Latrobe University VIC , Australia

Natalie Lewandowski Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University South Brisbane, QLD, Australia Brydie-Leigh Bartleet Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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To those who sing, play and participate. To those who encounter the most challenging of circumstances. To those who activate, advocate and have the courage to reimagine. This book is for you.

Foreword

As someone who knows remarkably little about music in any academic or practical sense, I found it an intriguing task to prepare the foreword for this book. My knowledge of health comes from a research career spent trying to identify what are usually referred to as the social determinants of health, which actually embraces ju