September author Emily MacGregor has written for the Guardian on the therapeutic role music can play in our lives.
Whilst we can all agree music – playing it and listening to it – can have a positive impact on our health and wellbeing, Emily asks if this movement towards music-for-healing means that as a society we’ve lost sight the intrinsic value of music, music for music’s sake.
Her new memoir, While The Music Lasts, details her healing journey back to music after the sudden death of her father:
But when my dad died unexpectedly in 2019, it threw my relationship with music into sharp relief. All of a sudden, I couldn’t bear listening to it. It was too painful, or it grated on my nerves and made me angry. I started to question how and why music mattered to me. And, as I learned to care about it again, I started to wonder about the ways in which music might care for me in return.
Read the full article here.
