CfA: Special Edition of the International Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing on Ageing
CfP: Special Edition of the International Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing on Agei
Deadline abstracts: 1st November 2024
The International Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing offers online publications for current research into applied music across a broad range of disciplines and subject areas, including Health and Social Care, Wellbeing, Education and Creativity, Therapeutic Arts, Arts & Health (Creative Health, social prescribing, Arts on Prescription), Music Therapy, Health Humanities, Social Sciences & Public Health perspectives of Music (including Cultural, Social, and Medical Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Music Sociology, Music Psychology, and Music & Neuroscience), Community Music, and applied practices in Composition, Performance, Improvisation, and Listening, for physical health, mental health, and social health.
Considering recent interest in the topic, the International Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing is inviting abstract submissions for a special volume of the journal focused on the intersection of these disciplines and subject areas with ageing. We are particularly interested in the following areas:
(1) Music and the therapeutic arts in ageing, including:
- Music/dance therapy for older people
- Sound-based or music-based interventions for older people
- Approaches to engaging older people with the therapeutic arts
- Inclusivity and diversity in the therapeutic arts
(2) Musicking and ageing, including:
- Effects of ageing on musicianship and musical performance practices
- Narratives and ethnographies of older musicians
- Musicking in care homes, hospices, and end-of-life care
- Communal music(al) activities for older people
(3) Creativity and music in ageing research:
- Music in creative ageing research
- Creative research methodologies for music(al) research in/with ageing populations
- Practice based reflections (and other research) from musicians and music groups working with older people
Submissions are also welcome on any other area of music, health, and wellbeing which intersects with ageing.
We welcome expressions of interest in the form of an abstract (no longer than 300 words) for publication of a paper of 6000-8000 words. Abstract submissions should be made online at: www.musichealthandwellbeing.co.uk/submit
Please submit abstracts by 1st November 2024. All abstracts will be considered by the Editorial Board. Applicants will be notified of the outcome before a full paper submission is required. Accepted submissions are for complete manuscripts, submitted back to our Team, and sent for external double-blind peer review. Publication of articles are subject to Reviewer and Editorial approval. All final manuscripts are subject to copy-editing and typesetting, including author confirmation of final proofs. Authors may submit as many articles as preferred at any one time.
Abstracts will be reviewed by 2nd December 2024.
Completed manuscripts must be submitted for peer review by 7th March.
Manuscripts requiring corrections must be re-submitted within a given timeframe. All final articles are open-access, published online, and made accessible as a downloadable PDF file. The International Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing is a non-profit Journal with no membership or subscription fees, no publishing fees, and no article download fees. Copyrights of all publications remain with the contributors.
For further information, or to make an informal enquiry, please contact:
Dr Stephen Tatlow (statlow[at]glos.ac.uk), Research Fellow (University of Gloucestershire)
Dr James Williams (j.williams[at]derby.ac.uk), Senior Lecturer in Therapeutic Arts (Music) (University of Derby)