Full Description
This book provides an overview of professional musicians working within the healthcare system and explores programs that bring music into the environment of the hospital. Far from being onstage, musicians in the hospital provide musical engagement for patients and healthcare providers focused on life-and-death issues. Music in healthcare offers a new and growing area for musical careers, distinct from the field of music therapy in which music is engaged to advance defined clinical goals. Rather, this volume considers what happens when musicians interact with the clinical environment as artists, and how musical careers and artistic practices can develop through work in a hospital setting. It outlines the specialized skills and training required to navigate safely and effectively within the healthcare context. The contributors draw on their experiences with collaborations between the performing arts and medicine at Boston University/Boston Medical Center, University of Florida/UF Health Shands Hospital, and the Peabody Institute/Johns Hopkins Medicine. These experiences, as well as the experiences of artists spotlighted throughout the volume, offer stories of thriving artistic practices and collaborations that outline a new field for tomorrow's musical artists.
Contents
Foreword
Eric Booth
Chapter 1 From Concert Hall to Hospital: Excellence, Artistry, and Skill, Reconsidered
Sarah Adams Hoover
Artist Spotlight 1 Being Present
Anaís Azul
Impromptu 1 Music and Health and the Health of Music
Moisès Fernández Via
Artist Spotlight 2 Both/And
Eva Cappelletti-Chao
Chapter 2 Rounding, Sounding, Playing Together: A Continuum of Musical Practice
Sarah Adams Hoover
Artist Spotlight 3 Singing from the Soul
Tamara Wellons
Chapter 3 Training for New Jobs: Professionalizing the Role of the Musician in Healthcare
Jill Sonke
Impromptu 2 Fixing, Doing, Being
Moisès Fernández Via
Artist Spotlight 4 Tag-Teaming
Jason Hedges
Chapter 4 From Beguiling to Belonging: The Evolution of Musical-Medical Partnership
Sarah Adams Hoover
