Resources
Grace Notes’ work lies at the intersection between music therapy and ethnomusicology. We encourage you to explore these perhaps unfamiliar fields by delving into the resources compiled below. It is our hope that, by understanding the cognition underlying the profoundly healing effects of musical traditions from around the world, we will promote cultural understanding and personal wellbeing.
Music Therapy
Articles:
Music and Health: What the Science Says
5 Music Therapy Techniques to Help You Cope in a Pandemic
Why music therapy is making a comeback
15 Music Therapy Activities and Tools
Books:
Integrative Health through Music Therapy
Manage Your Stress and Pain through Music
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
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Journals:
Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy
Videos:
The Scientific Basis of Music Therapy
Why I Want to Change the World with Music Therapy
How Music Can Heal Our Brain and Heart
Music helps people in nursing home once considered unreachable
Ethnomusicology:
Articles:
Music Around the World Toolkit
Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology
The Role of Music in Ethnic Identity Formation in Diaspora: a Research Review
The Vital, Unescapable Role of Music in World Religions
Books:
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation
Ethnomusicologizing: Essays on Music in the New Paradigms
Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique
Journals:
Ethnomusicology - Society for Ethnomusicology
Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology
Videos:
Hidden Music Rituals Around the World
Rhythm is Everything, Everywhere
The Joyful Tradition of Mountain Music
Hypnotic South Asian Improv Music
What does traditional music around the world have in common?