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African Popular Music and the Politics of Belonging in Australia (2016-)
Music in Health and Science
Through ethnographic research with African-born musicians across Australia, this project examines musical performance as a resource for negotiating ideas about cultural identity, race, and belonging in Australia. One of the fastest growing minority groups in Australia today, people of African descent face high levels of racial discrimination....
Sunconscious (2022)
Music in Health and Science
This is the third album by the Sounds of Space Project, a collaboration between Dr Nigel Meredith, Diana Scarborough and Professor Kim Cunio. Ten new tracks have been created for this project featuring music inspired by and including space 'sounds' from the Sun, Like their previous albums 'Aurora Musicalis', and ‘Celestial Incantations’, this...
Aurora Musicalis (2020)
Music in Health and Science
How do we define Aurora Musicalis? It is partly a soundscape drawn from our most mysterious continent, partly a response to the exquisite ‘sounds’ derived from the Very Low Frequency receiver at Halley Research Station. It is partly an imagining of what it would be like to stay at the Halley station with a grand piano, in this case to listen to a...
Celestial Incantations (2021)
Music in Health and Science
This is the second album by the Sounds of Space Project, a collaboration between Dr Nigel Meredith, Diana Scarborough and Prof. Kim Cunio. Ten new tracks are digitised for this project, featuring a “spectrum” of space “sounds” from the Earth, the solar system, the galaxy and beyond, together with voice, western and non-western instruments. Like...
CHIME: Music for Perinatal Mental Health (2019-)
Music in Health and Science
CHIME (Community Health Intervention through Music Engagement) is an interdisciplinary, collaborative project working to investigate how music can be used to support perinatal mental health in Africa and Australia. Mental health problems during and after pregnancy remain a serious women’s health issue with consequences not only for the affected...
Music, Health, and Power: Singing the Unsayable in The Gambia (2006-)
Music in Health and Science
This project draws on collaborative ethnographic research in the Gambia (2006-present) to examine the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. Focusing in particular on Muslim women performers, the research explores the way women have adapted indigenous musical healing practices to address contemporary public health challenges. In...
Musical Care International Network (2020-)
Music in Health and Science
The aim of this international network is to bring people together to explore examples of musical care from different disciplinary and cultural perspectives. We invite discussion of a broad range of musical care practices, from private experiences (including informal singing between caregivers and infants or formal music therapy sessions) to public...
