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Music Therapy for Young Children with Attachment Challenge
Authors: Jacobsen Stine Lindahl , Swanick Rachel 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Building knowledge of young children with attachment challenges in order to build high-quality assessments or meaningful therapeutic interventions can be difficult due to the wide range of behaviors they present. Three key areas affected by dysfunctional attachment are self-regulation, nonverbal communication, and social skills. Using Stern’s musical process of affect attunement in planned music therapy interventions can help the child (and help the family) to strengthen these skills and competences in order to develop positive attachments between family members in the home. With music therapy research on attachment challenges with young children being sparse, this chapter aims to provide an overview of what is available and how music therapy can be used to help the child and family function well.
Resilience-Based Music Partnerships for Children with Chronic Health Issues
Authors: Gooding Lori F. , Iwamasa Dawn A. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Childhood chronic health conditions can be long-lasting and pervasive in their effect on the quality of life of a child and their family. Engaging in music can build personal and social identity, help individuals reduce stress, promote coping, and facilitate wellbeing, and music therapy can function as a resource for those with chronic health conditions, serving to build resiliency. Research demonstrates that theory-based, active, or receptive music interventions can serve as positive distraction from the relentless nature of the chronic health condition while also promoting development, ameliorating the adverse effects of chronic illness and mediating risk, even with a small number of music therapy sessions. Moreover, both music therapy and other music interactions can create a deeper context for social connectedness and the child’s own emerging identity. Music can also be a resource for caregivers, strengthening protective context for all involved.
Section Commentary
Authors: MacDonald Raymond 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Music’s unique and universal ability to engage and connect socially and emotionally in enjoyable ways lies at the heart of what can be a valuable therapeutic intervention in the messy, complex reality of the clinical settings outlined within this section. Introducing music into new, strange, and stressful environments can make these environments feel less intimidating for children. Music can produce positive emotions, sustain relationships, and inculcate feelings of control and agency, which can lead to beneficial psychological effects via active music engagement or via music listening. These chapters point to the universal power of music to alleviate suffering and in particular to help children and their families cope with the stresses and strains of being in hospital. Post-qualitative inquiry and metamodern theory are utilized as conceptual frameworks to offer overarching perspectives on these chapters.
Section Introduction
Authors: Welch Graham F. , Ockelford Adam 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This section of the Handbook is concerned with music in the lives of young children, who are considered to be more “neurodiverse” in their behavior and development. Such children have often been labeled as having some form of “special need” in an educational sense. Examples of particular “needs” in this section’s contents relate to visual impairment, hearing loss, and autism. However, in terms of musical behavior and development, “neurodiverse” children can exhibit a rich range and depth of musical competency, implying that any such “special need” is not a barrier to musical engagement and that music may bring wider benefits to young children’s development.
The Role of Natural Abilities in Early Childhood Musical Development
Authors: Glasser Solange , McPherson Gary E. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In contrast to the huge amount of research in music and music education that deals with intrapersonal, environmental, and developmental processes, research on the natural abilities that typify giftedness is far less represented in the research literature. To encourage further interrogation of this area, this chapter discusses the role of natural abilities that are evident to a greater or lesser degree in all children after birth. These natural abilities, evident from birth, develop further in the early years of life and beyond through maturation and informal exercise, even though they are, to a certain extent, partially controlled by genetic influences. Natural abilities fit into four mental processes (intellectual, creative, social, and perceptual), and two physical abilities (muscular and motor control). These abilities help us understand the types of early indicators and predispositions evident during infancy that subsequently shape a child’s potential to engage with music in a more meaningful way.
Accommodating Neurodiversity in Early Childhood Music Learning and Development
Authors: Chasar Mara , Bakan Michael B. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This chapter proposes practical foundations for a new approach to early childhood music learning and development (ECMLD), one that specifically foregrounds accommodating the needs and wants of children with autism spectrum conditions and other expressions of neurodiversity. The work’s coauthors have been collaborators on several neurodiverse music, research, and publication projects since 2009, at which time Mara Chasar was seven years old and a participant in the Music-Play Project, a program for children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) and their families coordinated by Florida State University applied ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan. The centerpiece of the chapter is a prescriptive, pedagogical list: “Mara’s Ten Ideas for Accommodating Neurodiversity in ECMLD.” Following that list’s presentation, each of Mara’s Ten Ideas is explored individually through a dialogue-based narrative. The narrative follows Mara and Michael as they move progressively toward outlining an innovative pedagogical philosophy that privileges playful, neurodiverse, child-directed, open-ended, and improvisation-oriented group music-making.
Music Education and Engagement for Young Children with Hearing Loss
Authors: Doherty Eloise , Wilson Wayne J. , Barrett Margaret S. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Music education offers many benefits for all children and, as such, has the potential to help combat many of the cognitive, auditory, social, and emotional delays associated with childhood hearing loss. Although the idea of a musician with hearing loss may seem contradictory at first glance, the past 170 years of research shows that normal hearing is not a prerequisite for the development of musical skill, especially when appropriate teaching strategies are employed. This chapter aims to provide an overview of current knowledge surrounding the physical, technological, cultural, and pedagogical considerations for providing music education to children with hearing loss. This includes general information about device types, auditory development, auditory processing, (re)habilitation and educational approaches, and cultural considerations relating to hearing loss, hearing impairment, and Deaf populations. Teaching strategies and the potential benefits of music education and musical engagement for children with hearing loss are also discussed.
Exploring the Effectiveness of a Musical Intervention for Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Children in the Early Years, and for Those with Complex Needs
Authors: Ockelford Adam 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This chapter reports on Phase 1 of the IMAGINE project, in which 216 young children, supported by their parents and early years practitioners, participated in a ten-week music program that was run in Children’s Centres across England. The program was evaluated using the Sounds of Intent in the Early Years framework of musical development. The main findings were, first, that the musical development of young children growing up in areas of high social deprivation may well be significantly delayed. However, this delay can be ameliorated with targeted musical activities that last at least four months. Second, schemes that help families and practitioners to engage through music with young children who experience social deprivation, including those with complex needs, can improve children’s capacity to listen and attend, and can have a positive impact on their self-confidence and self-awareness and their capacity to make relationships and to manage their feelings and behavior.
Section Introduction
Authors: Barrett Margaret S. , Welch Graham F. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This section maps the varying landscapes of music early learning and development across time and place and the ways in which these landscapes shape definitions, descriptions, and understandings. Landscapes of digital and physical media, laboratory and naturalistic research environments, and the commercial sector of Music Early Learning Programs are considered as sites for music learning and engagement by young children and their families. Key to these chapters is consideration of young children’s agency as culture makers in and through music, and the role of their families as co-creators and collaborators in children’s music learning and development. The section has been designed to illustrate the diversity of music engagement experienced by young children in the environments of home, local community, learning institutions (formal, non-formal, and informal), and through the media. It concludes through an analysis of the research landscapes of children’s music learning and development, identifying gaps and potentialities for further investigation.
Section Introduction
Authors: Broughton Mary C. , Costa-Giomi Eugenia 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This section binds together various perspectives on early musical development and learning with the common thread of diversity. Through celebrating diverse views about how and why human musicality develops through the earliest phases of life, we can approach a fuller understanding of what it means to be musical. The perspectives explored through the section chapters consider pre- to postnatal development and experience-driven shaping forces that capitalize on biological and psychological capacities to reveal pathways from which musical engagement may serve positive outcomes for individuals and cultural communities over the life course. Through the chapters in this section, we illustrate the permeability of disciplinary divides by showing connections between diverse knowledges. In doing so, we illuminate a broader and deeper appreciation of the role of early development and learning in music in our lives.
Mitochondria and Energy Metabolism in the Pathogenesis and Therapy of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Authors: Konrad Csaba , Manfredi Giovanni 
Published: November 2023

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In this chapter, the authors review the contribution of pathways involving mitochondria and energy metabolism in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a debilitating neurodegenerative disease characterized by the progressive loss of motor neurons. They review the clinical characteristics and epidemiology of the disease, describe the most relevant ALS causing genes with mitochondrial implications, and discuss the pathways that are most relevant in ALS, including energy metabolism, calcium homeostasis, oxidative stress, cell death, mitochondrial quality control, mitochondrial motility, and lipid metabolism. The authors also provide a detailed review of completed and ongoing clinical trials related to the aforementioned pathways and lay out future perspectives in mitochondrial research and therapies for ALS.
Aesthetic Experience in the Everyday Clinical Work of Healthcare Practitioners
Authors: Fox Helena 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Aesthetic experience may be noticed in routine, habitual, or even brief moments of everyday clinical practice, for instance whilst taking a pulse, listening with a stethoscope, in the clinical touch, reading a medical investigation, seen in a gesture, or even noticed whilst walking down a hospital corridor. Healthcare practitioners can be moved in aesthetic ways in such daily moments as well as by issues of life and death. This chapter describes the nature of a type of aesthetic experience relevant to everyday clinical work. Here ‘aesthetic experience’ refers to sensory perception and the arising imaginative dimension that may be noticed during immersive participation. This includes human sensibilities, emotions, the embodied, the tacit, and the haptic that may all be entwined as lived experience and extend beyond the prosaic. To embrace this complexity, aesthetic experience was explored in a wider study using an innovative arts, practice-based research methodology entitled ‘Connective Aesthetics in Medicine.’ Within this, new experiential participatory processes were designed and shared with healthcare practitioners. A poetic twist was incorporated to slightly defamiliarize everyday clinical actions to activate aesthetic experience for observation. The description of aesthetic experience was built from participant feedback, discussion, and reflections on links with healthcare practice. The researcher’s experience in clinical and arts-based practice was combined with aspects of existing areas of practice and theory where awareness of sensory and imaginal experience was at the core. Aspects of these were adapted and synthesized into the newly designed processes and are discussed with examples. Aesthetic experience was found to be rich in multisensorial and expansive imaginative detail. Awareness of aesthetic experience had the potential to bring greater connection with the self and others in attentive ways and led to links with wider issues in healthcare practice. Such awareness could contribute a resource for enhancing quality in healthcare related to values and humane caregiving alongside the objective evidence base.
The Moving Pieces Approach
Authors: Blowers Charlie 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
There is a growing focus on the impact of stress and trauma on the body, particularly the autonomic nervous system, and concomitant disruption to both physical and mental health. The Moving Pieces Approach (MPA) is an innovative group-based approach to support mental health and manage persistent medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). This is facilitated through sensorimotor integration, combining the performing arts, psychotherapy, and somatic movement education, particularly the Feldenkrais Method. MPA offers an opportunity to integrate more tacit knowledge at the edges of awareness, accessed through rebalancing the nervous system, sensing into the body, improvisational movement, image making, storytelling, and group connection. Fundamental to this approach is establishing a safe and textured container, a shared ‘poetic space’ where unconscious embodied experience can safely emerge, be expressed through different art forms, and shared performatively. Polarities often emerge as part of the process, manifesting as conflicting impulses in the body, movement, opposing qualities in image making, and interpersonal conflict within the group. This chapter considers the main phases of MPA with a focus on polarities as a vehicle to access sequestered experience, discover new insights, and a revised personal narrative. It includes two case studies, one highlighting the dynamic of working with polarity and a second illustrating the potential benefits of performative sharing. Aesthetic experience is revealed as integral to MPA, influencing each phase of the process. Finally, there is reference to current research into MPA, combining artistic and scientific inquiries to investigate the potential benefit of this approach to people experiencing MUS.
Ultra-Orthodox Women and the Musical Shekhinah
Authors: Roda Jessica 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Four feminine musical scenes—schools and summer camps, home-recording studios, Broadway replicas, and public music videos on YouTube—in Hasidic and Litvish-Yeshivish circles, specifically their emergence, development, and current transformation, are the subject of this chapter. These scenes provide women and girls with an outlet for acting, singing, and dancing, while adhering to the norms of tsniut (modesty). They thereby create a division between feminine and masculine performative spaces. Newfound access to music production due to the digital turn has transformed how ultra-Orthodox women and girls create and disseminate their music. Access to technology and its subsequent integration into their homes have reshaped their production and consumption of music. This has established a new market and even an industry for music for and by women and girls only, accessible via informal and formal distribution platforms. This burgeoning, dynamic artistic space challenges the traditional reading of women-only performances in ultra-Orthodox communities as invisible and essentially collective. In contrast, these scenes reveal a novel celebration of individual creativity and the figure of the female artist.
“We Live Forever”
Authors: Muir Simo 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Polish Jewish singers and actors played an important role in rebuilding and revitalizing Yiddish culture in Sweden. This chapter discusses their repertoires and performances for the Jewish survivor community in post-Holocaust Sweden in various settings: sanatoria and convalescent homes, concert halls, and venues of the emerging new communities. These contexts offer insight into the meaning of Yiddish song for the sheyres-hapleyte, the surviving remnant, as the survivor community called itself. These contexts further expose the sheyres-hapleyte as a musical community that draws on notions of descent, affinity, and dissent through Yiddish song. The Swedish case ultimately exemplifies how, besides dealing with the trauma and commemorating the perished loved ones, singing and performing constituted an act of remembering and reconnecting with the prewar Yiddish culture in a now new and different environment.
Jewish Émigré Musicians in Buenos Aires
Authors: Glocer Silvia 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In the 1930s and 1940s, totalitarian regimes forced the exodus of artists and intellectuals to an extent unprecedented in the history of Europe. After the United States, Argentina was the country in the Americas that received the largest number of Jewish refugees, and about 140 of them were musicians. The vast majority settled in Buenos Aires, where different social networks provided the new arrivals with opportunities to integrate into the local musical scenes and the growing cultural industries. The local Jewish community helped with contacts and links to social and professional networks. These networks not only facilitated integration, but also led to reciprocity in that the émigré musicians and their cultural heritage would leave their permanent mark on the musical life of Buenos Aires.
The Yiddish Theater Republic of Sounds and the Performance of Listening
Authors: Abeliovich Ruthie 
Published: November 2023

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This chapter focuses on modes of listening generated by the Yiddish theater during the outset of the twentieth century. Departing from Moyshe Hurwitz’s four-act opera Yetsies mitsraim (The Exodus from Egypt), it examines the ways whereby listening in and to the Yiddish theater evolved against the backdrop of two simultaneous processes: the invention of sound technology and the Jewish mass migration movement from eastern Europe to the United States. Aiming to understand sound as recorded, aired, and actively listened to by audiences in historically and culturally specific formations, three central performances of listening are traced that reflect perceptual facets of the experience of displacement: theatrical listening, acousmatic listening, and peripatetic listening. These sensory and emotive formations translated, intervened in, and altered the ruptured migratory experience into audiovisual modes of attention, enabling its listeners to practice and negotiate their shifting social reality. Thus, listening in and to Yiddish theater functioned as a cornerstone in the actual and imaginative configurations of the Jewish migratory collective after the turn of the century.
Remembering the Destruction, Re-animating the Collective
Authors: Crowdus Miranda L. 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
As elsewhere in eastern and southern Europe, many Jewish communities in Greece were almost completely destroyed during the Holocaust, which resulted in the near erasure of many distinctive religious and cultural practices. Among these erased communities were the Romaniote Jews, an Indigenous Judeo-Greek population distinct from the Sephardic Jews who arrived in Greece following the Spanish Inquisition. The cultural losses included their musical practices, which were largely orally transmitted. A few Romaniote leaders and practitioners continue the musical-liturgical traditions today in Greece, as well as in the United States and Israel. The living practice of this musical liturgy that is ever-changing in the typical manner of orally transmitted repertoires arguably embodies a process of remembering destruction. This process is shown by the imprint of gaps in memory caused by rupture embedded in the repertoire. While remembering destruction is an intrinsically Jewish practice, it is of specific importance to the Jews of Ioannina (a city that once was, and arguably still is, the spiritual center of Romaniote Jews) and their descendants. In the past decade, an annual pilgrimage to Ioannina to attend a Romaniote Yom Kippur service has become a pivotal experience for both Romaniote Jews and others, enabling them to remember and mourn the pre-Holocaust community. This annual pilgrimage, at the epicenter of Romaniote religious and social significance, generates a new Jewish collective based on Romaniote identity and history that includes the restoration of distinct musical practices.
Hearing the Ancient Temple in Early Modernity
Authors: Cypess Rebecca , Greenberg Yoel 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In 1612 the Mantuan physician Abraham Portaleone published his treatise Shilṭei ha-giborim (שלטי הגיבורים, Shields of the heroes), a volume directed at an insider Jewish readership. Among the topics that Portaleone covered were the theories and practices of music in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, which, he claimed, were nearly identical to those that he and his readers knew in seventeenth-century Mantua. Past scholars have evaluated Portaleone’s interpretations for their historical accuracy, debating whether he was aware of the anachronisms in his work. By contrast, this chapter argues that Portaleone’s approach was rooted in the Jewish hermeneutic techniques of midrash, which he deployed in order to reinterpret ancient texts and make them relevant to his own day. Portaleone’s midrashic approach activated two kinds of collectivity: synchronic and diachronic. In eliding ancient Jewish history with contemporary musical life, Portaleone reclaimed modern music as a component of the Jewish experience and affirmed Jews’ participation in music as a legitimate part of their heritage.