Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings

Hilary Moss, PhD is Senior Lecturer and Course Director in Music Therapy at the University of Limerick, Ireland and formerly Director of the National Centre for Arts and Health, Dublin.

• LIST OF FIGURESLIST OF ONLINE FILESINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 LISTENINGCHAPTER 2 SELF EXPRESSION: TELLING MY STORYCHAPTER 3 DISSONANCE: WHEN MUSIC DOESN’T WORK CHAPTER 4 EXCELLENCE: MUSIC MATTERS IN THE HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT CHAPTER 5 POLYPHONY : ISSUES OF PROFESSIONALISM AND WORKING AS A TEAM FINAL THOUGHTS

I congratulate Hilary Moss on this hugely important, exceptionally inspiring and often moving account of the role of music in healthcare, which draws on 25 years of experience as a music therapist and manager of arts programmes in hospitals. The book is full of thought-provoking case-studies, which illustrate the many themes the book explores explores, including the profound ways in which music allows communication of feelings when words fail and the role of music in distracting people from the pain and distress of illness. Hilary Moss reminds us that healthcare settings can so often be places of aesthetic deprivation and neglect, and how the arts, and especially live music, can help to improve the quality of care, but only, she insists, when it is of high quality, clinically indicated and above all welcomed by the patient.Dr Stephen Clift Professor Emeritus, Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church UniversityVisiting Professor, International Centre for Community Music, York St John UniversityProfessorial Fellow, Royal Society for Public Health