We are what we listen to: The impact of Music on Individual and Social Health

by Patricia Caicedo, Tess Knighton (Foreword by)

Overview

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, soprano, musicologist, and physician Patricia Caicedo explores the connection between music-its performance, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it-and health.

Drawing on the latest research and musical examples, Caicedo reveals:

- How the brain works when you listen and make music.

- The relationship between rhythm, movement, and health.

- The relationship between pleasure, emotion, and music.

- How music has been a crucial element of the human experience since the beginning of the species and how it is fundamental for maintaining communities.

- The importance of music in pain and death.

- How music increases your creativity and produces happiness and a sense of purpose in life.

We are what we listen to: the impact of music on individual health will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, transdisciplinary investigation that contextualizes the music and its effects on historical, scientific, and social levels. It is an essential book for music lovers and everybody seeking to improve their mental and physical health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780981720449
Publisher:	Mundo Arts
Publication date:	09/15/2021
Series:	Music and Health , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	314,849
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Patricia Caicedo is a soprano, a musicologist and a physician. She has released eleven albums and published numerous scholarly editions of scores and books, including The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations, the go-to history on its subject. She is also an avid performer of these works, having performed at important venues of Europe and the Americas in addition to founding and directing the Barcelona Festival of Song, which focuses on the performance and study of Latin American and Iberian art songs in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese. She created Mundo Arts, a music publishing house, a record label, and an online store. Caicedo is the host of the podcast Latin American and Iberian Art Song, in which she interviews composers and leading experts from across the world.Patricia has a Ph.D. in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Medical Doctor degree from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina.
Tess Knighton holds MA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge and is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. From May 2011 she has been an ICREA Research Professor, until May 2020 at the Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC), and subsequently at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She held a Marie Curie Foundation grant (2012-6) for a research project on the urban musics of early modern Barcelona, and from September 2020 holds a Spanish government grant (I+D) on the contribution of confraternities and guilds to the urban soundscape in the Iberian Peninsula, 1400-1700. Her research interests embrace music and culture in the Iberian world from the 15th to the 17th centuries, and she has published widely in this field. She is Series Editor of the Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music series for The Boydell Press and forms part of several editorial and advisory committees in Spain and in Europe.

Table of Contents

INDEX

Foreword by Tess Knighton    .......................................   I

Prelude         .............................................................      1                                   

Chapters

1.Music and Medicine: A history of a relationship .............   7

2.Music and cognition      ........................................   23

3.The marvelous brain of musicians   .........................   35

4.Pleasure, emotion and music   ...................................   47

5.Music, happiness and the meaning of life ..................  59

6.Rhythm, movement and health   ..................................  67

7.Music in pain and death   ..........................................  79

8.Voice, song, and the sounds of the body  ....................  91

9.Music and creativity    ............................................. 105

10.Global health, pandemic and the example of orchestras .. 115

Postlude - Exercise book       . ..................................  121

1. The soundtrack of your life    ............................... 122

   Autobiographical exercise

A. The music of your childhood.        

B. The music of your adolescence.

C. Ten songs that have accompanied the most important moments of your life.

 D. Music that has accompanied you in sadness.

E. Music that gives your pleasure.

 F. Music that relaxes you.

 G. The songs that you are inheriting to your children.

 H. The music you would like at your funeral.

2.Song creation       ................................................. 129

A.Write the songs that express your essence.

 B. Write a song that expresses your values ​​and your

   vision of life.

C. Write a song in which you describe the person you 

   want to become.

3. Soundscapes    .......................................................... 132

  A. The sounds that surround you every day

   B. The sounds of your city

   C. Walking in nature 

Bibliography  ................................................................. 135

About the author   ........................................................ 157