Music For Maternity

Christina Aguilera’s childhood wasn’t “emotionally safe and secure”. The ‘Fighter’ hitmaker – who has been publicly open about domestic abuse she witnessed between her father and her mother when she was younger – admits she found music her “outlet” and praised its “therapeutic” nature. Read more here…

Five months ago, Stan DeWitt and his wife saw the documentary “Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory,” about music therapy at nursing homes. “We were so moved by it,” DeWitt, who is minister of music at Grace First Presbyterian Church, said. “We thought we could do something here.” Read more here…

Music therapy. A noble profession, but it has been seemingly unknown and underestimated in many places. Music therapy. A noble profession, but it has been seemingly unknown and underestimated in many places. Read more here…

Brockton native Nicholas Capachione, 23, entered Recovery Unplugged — a Florida-based rehab facility that uses music to kick addiction — a “broken person” hooked on oxycodone. But he emerged stronger than ever. Read more here…

TEDxChattanooga, an independently organized event in the spirit of TED Talks, will feature more than a dozen speakers with Chattanooga stories ranging from a biohacker who made headlines when he confronted a street preacher, to a music therapist who studies the effects of music on the brain. Read more here…

AUSTIN – Music can do more than soothe or entertain. Just ask Hope Young, founder of the Center for Music Therapy in Austin. “Neurologically speaking, it’s one of the only sensory stimulus we have that can activate every single area of the brain at the same time,” Young said. Read more here…

Music therapists have been busy. Prior to 2011, no state required music therapists to obtain an occupational license. Yet, as a result of efforts of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) and the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT), in the span of 13 months from 2011-12, North Dakota, Nevada, and Georgia enacted laws renotequiring music therapists to get licensed. More recently, on July 1, 2015, Oregon became the fourth state to license music therapists. Read more here…

The echo of the drum beats against the twinkling keys on the piano. It’s not a song anyone would recognize – the notes aren’t played in any particular rhythm, the tune isn’t written down anywhere – but it calms the 37-year-old man with nonverbal autism. Read more here…

Every time her newborn becomes cranky, Hayat Fatima, 26, plays the ‘Selfie le le’ song from Salman Khan-starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Instantly, the one-month-old calms down. “I was seven months pregnant when I watched this movie. He started kicking hard the moment this song started. It felt like he was dancing inside me. This was the only song he reacted to that way,” says the Delhi schoolteacher. “After he was born, I noticed that he still enjoyed the song. We now play it to pacify him and it really works.” Read more here…

A Florida lawmaker is proposing to place individuals who want to practice music therapy, the use of music production or singing as a form of physical or psychological therapy, under the regulation of state bureaucrats. Read more here…