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...

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Publicado en:Legon Journal of the Humanities Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 29 - 47
Autores principales: Carl, Florian, Kutsidzo, Rosemond
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Pluto Journals 2016
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          Senior Lecturer, Department of Music and Dance, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
          Senior Research Assistant, Department of Music and Dance, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
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