Call for papers - NB revised deadline for abstract submission: Wednesday 30 April
MUSIC, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS (Conference chairs: Jane Ginsborg, Antonia Ivaldi, RNCM; Aaron Williamon, RCM)
6-8 November, 2008
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
This conference focuses on the inter-relationships between music and health. Positive psychology links its two main strands, musicians’ health and music for health promotion.
Empirical and theoretical research on music will be presented from a range of disciplines including (but not restricted to) education, health and medical sciences, musicology, psychology and the social sciences. Contributions from other disciplines – particularly those reporting interdisciplinary research – are welcome, provided they address musicians’ health and music for health promotion.
Within these two strands, a wide range of topics is likely to be covered relating to the implications for health of experiencing, practising and performing music. Contributions from researchers in the field of positive psychology will address the topic of happiness.
Papers reporting empirical research should present unpublished data from recent studies; abstracts reporting incomplete studies may be submitted provided analyses are complete by the time they are presented at the conference itself.
The International Handbook of Musicians’ Health and Wellbeing, edited by Aaron Williamon, to be published by Oxford University Press, will be launched at the conference.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be sent to [log in to unmask]
by 30 April 2008
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Dr Jane Ginsborg, C.Psychol.
Research Fellow
Royal Northern College of Music
124 Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9RD
telephone 0161 907 5315
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