Music and Wellbeing in Everyday Life: An Exploratory Study of Music Experience in Ghana.
In this paper we highlight the experience of music in everyday contexts in Ghana. Using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) and semi-structured interviews, we examined how people experience and use music in everyday life in potentially beneficial ways to enhance subjective wellbeing. In contrast to...
| Publicado en: | Legon Journal of the Humanities Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 29 - 47 |
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