Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment

Sarah Adams Hoover is Associate Dean for Innovation, Interdisciplinary Partnerships and Community Initiatives at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

• Foreword Eric BoothChapter 1 From Concert Hall to Hospital: Excellence, Artistry, and Skill, Reconsidered Sarah Adams HooverArtist Spotlight 1 Being Present Anaís Azul Impromptu 1 Music and Health and the Health of Music Moisès Fernández ViaArtist Spotlight 2 Both/And Eva Cappelletti-ChaoChapter 2 Rounding, Sounding, Playing Together: A Continuum of Musical Practice Sarah Adams Hoover Artist Spotlight 3 Singing from the Soul Tamara WellonsChapter 3 Training for New Jobs: Professionalizing the Role of the Musician in Healthcare Jill SonkeImpromptu 2 Fixing, Doing, BeingMoisès Fernández ViaArtist Spotlight 4 Tag-Teaming Jason HedgesChapter 4 From Beguiling to Belonging: The Evolution of Musical-Medical Partnership Sarah Adams Hoover

"In Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment, Sarah Adams Hoover conducts a rare piece of reflection on musical soundscapes in clinical settings and how these might affect the performer, participant and audience. In these hard days of a pandemic, with fear in the air, and our hospitals struggling to find their way through mounting workloads, the pleasures of music should not be understated, nor the work of those who bring it to clinics, bedsides and corridors, without applause. Music is different kind of medicine. Music can be care. Music as Care will be of interest to scholars and postgraduates in health humanities, medical humanities, arts for health, arts in hospitals and community arts."— Paul Crawford, Professor of Health Humanities, The University of Nottingham, UK"Everyone who teaches music performance in one of America’s many colleges and universities should read Music as Care. In this book, Sarah Hoover provides a compelling vision of a future where professionally-trained musicians capably bring the healing power of music into our hospitals and hospices. It is high time for development of musical-medical partnerships to enter the mainstream, and Hoover successfully points the way forward."—Patricia Lambert, Professor of Arts Management, University of Oregon, USA