Creating a Musically Accessible Culture
By: Christine Stevens, MSW, MA, MT-BC
Category: Wellness
Population Served: Others
It's like creating handicapped parking spots.
It's like building on ramps.
It's like making reachable doorknobs.
We live in a culture of musical disability.
It's time to return music making to the accessibility it enjoyed in hootenannies and jamborees, to it's purpose beyond entertainment and performance.
Active Music Making and Wellness
By: Karl T. Bruhn and Alicia Ann Claire, PhD, MT-BC
Category: Wellness
Population Served: Others
People are demanding more than the absence of disease to be well. They also want reduced illness risk, managed stress, better energy, daily enjoyment, personal development, satisfying relationships, and feelings of belonging. Active music making provides the opportunities to a help achieve wellness in these ways.
