Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington’s Early Black-Pride Music
From the article: Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, there was the music of Duke Ellington. Born and raised in Washington, D.C.
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Spoke Launches Music Therapy App for Gen Z, Raises $1.5M Round Led by Ada Ventures
Apps like Calm and Endel are exploring an expanding new universe of what’s becoming known as “functional sound”. Calm and others are doing it in the meditation and sleep space, while Endel, which has raised $7.5 million, creates “functional sound” to enhance working or other activities.
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Anti-Oppressive Music Therapy: Updates and Future Considerations
From the article: Research shows that systemic oppression negatively affects health outcomes for marginalized people (Baines, 2016; Williams & Cooper, 2020). Much of music therapy research, pedagogy, and practice has covertly and overtly participated in systemic oppression through embracing Eurocentric traditions that promote white supremacy.
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Art and Music Therapy Seem to Help with Brain Disorders. Scientists Want to Know Why.
This is a February, 2022 NPR article and broadcast which discusses the way music therapy positively impacts patients with a variety of brain disorders.
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Association of Logic’s Hip Hop song “1-800-273-8255” with Lifeline Calls and Suicides in the United States
On 28 April 2017 Logic – an American Hip Hop artist – released the song 1-800-273-8255”, which is the phone number (now 988) for the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The song focuses on an individual who calls this number and says he no longer wants to live.
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Case Study: Social and Emotional Learning in the Age of Covid
This paper examines how two organizations, Hello Insight and Guitars Over Guns, have teamed up to measure the impact of Guitars Over Guns’ music mentoring programs on their participants and specifically through the lens of Social and Emotional Learning and the Theory of Change. Both of these important concepts are described in the body of this document.
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Doctors Develop Music-Making App To Battle Brain Fog In Cancer Patients
Doctors from the University of Cincinnati are researching innovative ways to battle brain fog, and a new study has tested the waters of virtual music therapy.
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Dopamine Modulates The Reward Experiences Elicited By Music
Understanding how the brain translates a structured sequence of sounds, such as music, into a pleasant and rewarding experience is a fascinating question which may be crucial to better understand the processing of abstract rewards in humans. Previous neuroimaging findings point to a challenging role of the dopaminergic system in music-evoked pleasure.
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Editorial: The Impact of Music on Human Development and Well-Being
This editorial references many other studies that measure the impact of music on Human Development and Well-Being. Music is one of the most universal ways of expression and communication for humankind and is present in the everyday lives of people of all ages and from all cultures around the world (Mehr et al., 2019).
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Effects of Music Therapy on Depression and Duration of Hospital Stay of Breast Cancer Patients After Radical Mastectomy
Breast cancer remains the most important cancer among women worldwide. The disease itself and treatment may have a profound impact on the patients’ psychological well being and quality of life. Depression is common in breast cancer patients and affects the therapeutic effects as well as prolongs the duration of hospital stay.
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