Y12 Music Taster Session

Music in the community: Musical vulnerability and asylum

Throughout history, music has been recognised both to have beneficial effects on health and wellbeing, and to cause potentially harmful outcomes such as social withdrawal and violence. In this session we will reflect on some of the sonic properties and extramusical associations that make us so vulnerable to the powerful impact of music and discuss how it can function as a place of asylum, respite, or refuge. We will then consider how music functions in everyday settings such as nurseries, hospitals, and prisons and evaluate the role it plays in creating and sustaining communities.

This session will be of interest to anyone interested in studying Music, Archaeology & Anthropology, Human Sciences, Geography or Psychology at university.

Led by Dr Elizabeth H. MacGregor, Joanna Randall-MacIver Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College.

The deadline for sign-ups is 8am on Monday 10 February. More detailed descriptions of all sessions can be found on the Somerville College website.