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Music, Health, and Wellbeing

Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, and Laura Mitchell

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780199586974

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.001.0001

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Embodied Musical Communication Across Cultures: Singing and Dancing for Quality of Life and Wellbeing Benefit

Embodied Musical Communication Across Cultures: Singing and Dancing for Quality of Life and Wellbeing Benefit

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Chapter 11 Embodied Musical Communication Across Cultures: Singing and Dancing for Quality of Life and Wellbeing Benefit
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Music, Health, and Wellbeing
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Jane Davidson

Andrea Emberly

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.003.0011

This chapter aims to interrogate the nature and role of the musical arts of singing and dancing in culture to explore the impact on both the quality of life and wellbeing. The chapter is divided into three primary sections, beginning with a discussion of music and its embodied communicative function, with evidence from infancy and early childhood research. The second section considers how musical arts are experienced in Western contexts, especially in terms of their contemporary use. The final section introduces the musical culture of the Venda of South Africa, showing how musicality is defined there in a culturally-specific manner. Through current research and the historical work of John Blacking, the final section explores how musicality is constructed within and beyond communities. The cross-cultural analysis allows for the examination of distinct notions of embodied musical communication whilst building on developments that support the idea of musicality and its role in enhancing quality of life and feelings of wellbeing.

Keywords:   musical arts, cultural practice, Venda, musicality, musical commnication, quality of life

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