Humans have latched onto rhythms and tunes for millennia. Does all this music have an evolutionary purpose or is it just “evolutionary cheesecake”?
- Professor and Head of Creative Arts and Music Therapy Research Unit; Director of Researcher Development Unit, The University of Melbourne
The songs we love are very personal, whether they’re meaningful, pleasure-inducing or bangers. How do you choose what you should listen to?
The NDIS has laudable aims but how much funding will be available to enable participation in arts therapy?
Most young people rely on music to make them feel better, and have had multiple experiences of this working. But if someone you know is struggling with mental health problems it’s worth having a chat.
Whiplash, the new film written and directed by American Damien Chazelle, is billed as a drama about an ambitious young drummer and his terrifying teacher. The older teacher is said to “discover” the 19…
The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, Katrina McFerran discusses how access to music education can reaffirm social…
School music is a big fish within the small pond of the Creative Arts curriculum. In lobbying for more space, music advocates often use an array of arguments – some backed by evidence, some not. Many argue…
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