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Authentic Connection
Music, Spirituality, and Wellbeing
Introduction
This volume focuses on the ways in which mutual musical engagement might play a role in creating healthful, life-giving experiences.
Content Overview
Scholarly chapters and reflective interludes illustrate how people use music to forge authentic spiritual and emotional connections with others, including in times of physical isolation and political unrest.
Chapters and interludes address topics such as relationship building, community, wellbeing, therapy, education, and ecology.
Each describes various ways in which individuals connect authentically with themselves, others, the music they make, and the physical and spiritual world around them.
Global Crises and Music
Many authors address current global crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, racism, nationalism, environmental injustice, and associated climate catastrophes.
Authors articulate various qualities of authentic human connections, and discuss various ways in which music might be poised to facilitate emotional and spiritual connections in some of the most challenging and physically isolating times.
