10-Minute Talks | Music and wellbeing

In this talk Tia DeNora considers everyday musical engagement as a way of regulating emotion, holding focus, managing pain and promoting social connection (including the sense of connection).

Show Notes

Music can keep us physically, emotionally, and socially strong. But just how does music help? In this talk Tia DeNora considers everyday musical engagement as a way of regulating emotion, holding focus, managing pain and promoting social connection (including the sense of connection). She explores some of the reasons why music is a particularly valuable medium for wellbeing and suggests that this value derives from the interaction between what music offers and people’s resourcefulness as they interact with and care for music.

Speaker: Professor Tia DeNora FBA, Professor of Sociology of Music, University of Exeter

Transcript: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/10-minute-talks-music-and-wellbeing/

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