Soundscapes of wellbeing in popular music / edited by Gavin J. Andrews, Paul Kingsbury and Robin A. Kearns.

Burlington, VT : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

xvi, 304 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Robin Kearns -- pt. I CIRCULATION -- 2. Norah Jones's̀ Don't Know Why': Flexible Grounding and Contemporary Cities / Adam Krims -- 3. Look Beyond Appearances: Place, Disability, and Wellbeing in the Music of Staff Benda Bilili / Ronan Foley -- 4̀.Gonna Live Forever': Noel Gallagher's Spaces of Wellbeing / Gavin J. Andrews -- 5.S̀till ill': Morrissey, The Smiths, and the Geography of Miserabilism / Ben Cowell -- 6. Jewish Spiritual Healing, Mi Shebeirach, and the Legacy of Debbie Friedman / Tanya Sermer -- pt. II TRANSFORMATIONS -- 7. Listen! It's Alive / Paul Kingsbury -- 8. Sounds, Surrounds, and Wellbeing on Planet WOMAD / Robin Kearns -- 9. Pasifika Festival Representations and Realities for the Wellbeing of Pacific Peoples in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Ruth Talo -- 10. Dying Healthy: Music in Places of Palliative Care / Amy Clements-Cortes.

Contents note continued: 11.A Soundtrack to the Everyday: Street Music and the Production of Convivial̀ Healthy' Public Places / Paul Simpson -- 12. Painting Therapeutic Landscapes with Sound: On Land by Brian Eno / Joshua Evans -- pt. III GATHERING -- 13. Mapping the Geography of Health Inequity through Participatory Hip Hop / Jeffrey R. Masuda -- 14. Fast and Frightening: Boundaries to Wellbeing for Women in the Punk Community / Tyler Sonnichsen -- 15. Mary, Maria, and the Intensity of Redemption: Everyday Spiritual Healing in the Lyrics of Bruce Springsteen / Pamela Moss -- 16. No-Go Zones and Comfortable Places: Musical Challenges to the Displacements of HIV and AIDS in South Africa / Laryssa Whittaker -- 17. Music and the Wellbeing of a Nation: Developing Identity, Constructing Community in Singapore / Lily Kong -- 18. Bono, Band Aid, and Before: Celebrity Humanitarianism, Music, and the Objects of its Action / Edward R. Carr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.