Music as social medicine: Two perspectives on the West‐Eastern Divan Orchestra

In: New directions for youth development: theory, research, and practice, Band 2010, Heft 125, S. 127-140

Abstract

AbstractThe social power of music can effect stable and positive changes in individual health and communities that have significant health risks. Two observers, a medical student and a music student, discuss respectively the ideals and challenges of this principle put into practice. Their reflections about the role of music as social therapy and space for cultural communication stem from their one‐week involvement with the West‐Eastern Divan Orchestra at its summer institute in Spain.