This book explores how people may use music in ways that are
helpful for them, especially in relation to a sense of wellbeing,
belonging and participation. The central premise for the study is
that help is not a decontextualized effect that music produces. The
book contributes to the current discourse on music, culture and
society and it is developed in dialogue with related areas of
study, such as music sociology, ethnomusicology, community
psychology and health promotion. Where Music Helps describes the
emerging movement that has been labelled Community Music Therapy,
and it presents ethnographically informed case studies of eight
music projects (localized in England, Israel, Norway, and South
Africa). The various chapters of the book portray "music's help" in
action within a broad range of contexts; with individuals, groups
and communities - all of whom have been challenged by illness or
disability, social and cultural disadvantage or injustice. Music
and musicing has helped these people find their voice (literally
and metaphorically); to be welcomed and to welcome, to be accepted
and to accept, to be together in different and better ways, to
project alternative messages about themselves or their community
and to connect with others beyond their immediate environment. The
overriding theme that is explored is how music comes to afford
things in concert with its environments, which may suggest a way of
accounting for the role of music in music therapy without reducing
music to a secondary role in relation to the "therapeutic," that
is, being "just" a symbol of psychological states, a stimulus, or a
text reflecting socio-cultural content.
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