This article reports on the evaluation of a new partnership between the University of the
Witwate... more This article reports on the evaluation of a new partnership between the University of the Witwatersrand’s Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC) and the Music Division at the Wits School of Arts (WSOA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 2015, the partnership aims to bring live music to the wards of WDGMC through a student placement in the hospital, which forms part of the Bachelor of Music students’ fourth year Community Music course. The article examines the effects of live music performances on patients, staff, and hospital spaces more broadly. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire, nurse, and student focus groups, as well as student academic essays. The results revealed a range of benefits and suggest that live music performances may be able to humanise hospital spaces, enabling different modes of musical engagements that confer agency and control to patients, their carers, and nurses. The article concludes by advocating for a mutuallybeneficial relationship between the health sciences and the arts, through community music interventions such as this pilot Wits “music in hospital” project. Keywords: arts and health; Community Music; hospital; live music; musicking
Our paper focuses on two service learning projects that are integrated into Wits University's com... more Our paper focuses on two service learning projects that are integrated into Wits University's community music course as a form of community engagement in South African higher education. The research considers the nature of student learning in community music service learning. We examine the qualities and content of student learning in two contextually contrasting projects: the first is a pilot music and health project, where community music students perform for and interact with staff, patients and carers in a local hospital; the second is an arts community engagement project where students facilitate music and drama workshops in rural primary schools, while participating in a homestay program. Based on lecturer observation and data from students' journals, focus groups and academic essays, we analyze students' academic, personal and civic learning (Ash & Clayton, 2009). Key findings include students' development of critical, reflective practice; connecting community music theory to practice; learning applied musicianship, collaboration and facilitation skills and developing cultural sensitivity and social awareness that lie at the heart of community engagement for social change. In responding to the social, political, and cultural complexities of South Africa, we suggest that both projects are contributing to the development of Community Music theory and practice in a Southern African context.
Nursing management (Harrow, London, England : 1994), 2010
Hospital patients often experience many different art forms, from the simple placing of sculpture... more Hospital patients often experience many different art forms, from the simple placing of sculpture in hospital grounds to the involvement of patients and staff in exhibitions, performances or workshops. In this article, the author refers to the work of Royal Brompton & Harefield Arts to improve the wellbeing of patients and staff at Royal Brompton Hospital, in Chelsea, London, and Harefield Hospital, near Uxbridge, Middlesex, which together form the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the U.K.
C98. OF MEN AND MICE: BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, 2010
Page 1. / Mini Symposium / C98 OF MEN AND MICE: BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMO... more Page 1. / Mini Symposium / C98 OF MEN AND MICE: BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE Tuesday, May 18/1:30 PM-4:00 PM / Room 286-287 (Second Level), Morial Convention Center ...
ISME - Innovation and Change in Community Music - Proceedings of the XV International Seminar of the ISME Commission on Community Music Activity, 2017
This article offers an overview of public policy and community music as presented by an internati... more This article offers an overview of public policy and community music as presented by an international panel in a symposium held in Edinburgh at the XV Community Music Activity (CMA) Seminar in 2016. This article summarizes public policy in eight countries: Australia, Japan, Germany, Britain, Ireland, United States, Canada, and Brazil. As a first discussion of policy and community music, this article provides an initial gathering of preliminary information to engage the larger CM community in discussions on policy that affects how community music activities happen across the globe.
This article reports on the evaluation of a new partnership between the University of the
Witwate... more This article reports on the evaluation of a new partnership between the University of the Witwatersrand’s Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC) and the Music Division at the Wits School of Arts (WSOA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 2015, the partnership aims to bring live music to the wards of WDGMC through a student placement in the hospital, which forms part of the Bachelor of Music students’ fourth year Community Music course. The article examines the effects of live music performances on patients, staff, and hospital spaces more broadly. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire, nurse, and student focus groups, as well as student academic essays. The results revealed a range of benefits and suggest that live music performances may be able to humanise hospital spaces, enabling different modes of musical engagements that confer agency and control to patients, their carers, and nurses. The article concludes by advocating for a mutuallybeneficial relationship between the health sciences and the arts, through community music interventions such as this pilot Wits “music in hospital” project. Keywords: arts and health; Community Music; hospital; live music; musicking
Our paper focuses on two service learning projects that are integrated into Wits University's com... more Our paper focuses on two service learning projects that are integrated into Wits University's community music course as a form of community engagement in South African higher education. The research considers the nature of student learning in community music service learning. We examine the qualities and content of student learning in two contextually contrasting projects: the first is a pilot music and health project, where community music students perform for and interact with staff, patients and carers in a local hospital; the second is an arts community engagement project where students facilitate music and drama workshops in rural primary schools, while participating in a homestay program. Based on lecturer observation and data from students' journals, focus groups and academic essays, we analyze students' academic, personal and civic learning (Ash & Clayton, 2009). Key findings include students' development of critical, reflective practice; connecting community music theory to practice; learning applied musicianship, collaboration and facilitation skills and developing cultural sensitivity and social awareness that lie at the heart of community engagement for social change. In responding to the social, political, and cultural complexities of South Africa, we suggest that both projects are contributing to the development of Community Music theory and practice in a Southern African context.
Nursing management (Harrow, London, England : 1994), 2010
Hospital patients often experience many different art forms, from the simple placing of sculpture... more Hospital patients often experience many different art forms, from the simple placing of sculpture in hospital grounds to the involvement of patients and staff in exhibitions, performances or workshops. In this article, the author refers to the work of Royal Brompton & Harefield Arts to improve the wellbeing of patients and staff at Royal Brompton Hospital, in Chelsea, London, and Harefield Hospital, near Uxbridge, Middlesex, which together form the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the U.K.
C98. OF MEN AND MICE: BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, 2010
Page 1. / Mini Symposium / C98 OF MEN AND MICE: BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMO... more Page 1. / Mini Symposium / C98 OF MEN AND MICE: BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE Tuesday, May 18/1:30 PM-4:00 PM / Room 286-287 (Second Level), Morial Convention Center ...
ISME - Innovation and Change in Community Music - Proceedings of the XV International Seminar of the ISME Commission on Community Music Activity, 2017
This article offers an overview of public policy and community music as presented by an internati... more This article offers an overview of public policy and community music as presented by an international panel in a symposium held in Edinburgh at the XV Community Music Activity (CMA) Seminar in 2016. This article summarizes public policy in eight countries: Australia, Japan, Germany, Britain, Ireland, United States, Canada, and Brazil. As a first discussion of policy and community music, this article provides an initial gathering of preliminary information to engage the larger CM community in discussions on policy that affects how community music activities happen across the globe.
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Witwatersrand’s Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC) and the Music Division at
the Wits School of Arts (WSOA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 2015, the
partnership aims to bring live music to the wards of WDGMC through a student placement
in the hospital, which forms part of the Bachelor of Music students’ fourth year Community
Music course. The article examines the effects of live music performances on patients, staff,
and hospital spaces more broadly. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire, nurse,
and student focus groups, as well as student academic essays. The results revealed a range
of benefits and suggest that live music performances may be able to humanise hospital
spaces, enabling different modes of musical engagements that confer agency and control
to patients, their carers, and nurses. The article concludes by advocating for a mutuallybeneficial
relationship between the health sciences and the arts, through community music
interventions such as this pilot Wits “music in hospital” project.
Keywords: arts and health; Community Music; hospital; live music; musicking
Conference Presentations by Victoria Hume
Witwatersrand’s Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC) and the Music Division at
the Wits School of Arts (WSOA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 2015, the
partnership aims to bring live music to the wards of WDGMC through a student placement
in the hospital, which forms part of the Bachelor of Music students’ fourth year Community
Music course. The article examines the effects of live music performances on patients, staff,
and hospital spaces more broadly. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire, nurse,
and student focus groups, as well as student academic essays. The results revealed a range
of benefits and suggest that live music performances may be able to humanise hospital
spaces, enabling different modes of musical engagements that confer agency and control
to patients, their carers, and nurses. The article concludes by advocating for a mutuallybeneficial
relationship between the health sciences and the arts, through community music
interventions such as this pilot Wits “music in hospital” project.
Keywords: arts and health; Community Music; hospital; live music; musicking