The breath affects multiple dimensions of our health. Scientific research is increasingly demonstrating the influence of breath on emotion, physical health, resilience and vitality. Music offers a unique contribution to breathing function: Listening to music can impact breathing rhythms; live music entrained to breathing rhythms may support interpersonal connection; and active music-making using the breath directly (e.g., wind instrument playing and/or singing) can support optimal respiration. Integrative music therapy incorporates clinical interventions using music and breath within a holistic view of the patient and healthcare delivery. In this book, contributors from music therapy, medicine and related healthcare professions offer clinical methods and research on music, the breath and health across a variety of populations including pulmonary medicine, mechanical ventilation, coma, pain management, procedural support, childbirth, neonatal intensive care, oncology, end of life, psychotherapy and wellness.
Contributors include:
Ronit Azoulay, Sebastian Bonner, Joke Bradt, Elisabeth Davis, David Evans, Ellen Griggs-Drane, D'Arcy Gaisser, Sharon W. Goodill, Kathy Jo Gutgsell, Suzanne B. Hanser, Brian Harris, Bryan C. Hunter, Matilde Irigoyen, Anya P. Ismail, Marcela Lichtensztejn, Joanne V. Loewy, Lillie McCatty, Robert D. Mellins, Louise Montello, Rosemary Oliva, Stephan Quentzel, Joseph Piccinini, Jonathan Raskin, David Resnick, Clive Robbins, Erica Rondina, Olle Jane Z. Sahler, Diane M. Salipante, Lisa Sokolov, Kristen Stewart, Liza Wu, and Barry J. Zimmerman
