Music, Health
Published on Nov 25, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
vancouver's Downtown eastside
"Canada's poorest postal code"
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
- Made up of 16,500 residents
- 84-85% lived below Canada's low income cut off
- 49.7%-63.8% incomes from transfer payments
- 62% of adults over 15 are unemployed
-Low income cut off for a city of 500,000 (Vancouver) was $18,400
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role of organizations in DTES
- Music therapy using popular music
- Music and theatre productions
- Music jams and ensemble opportunities
- Lessons/classes in music performance and history
- Community projects of recording music
The downtown eastside has been been offering various fine arts programs for community members since the 1980's. These include
-Music therapy using popular music
-Music and theatre production
-Music jams using folk and popular music as well as enesmble opportunities for choir and jazz band
-Lessons and workshops in musical performance and associated arts such as drama or dance
-Classes and lessons in music performance and history
-And finally, opportunities for various community projects to record their music
-Music therapy using popular music
-Music and theatre production
-Music jams using folk and popular music as well as enesmble opportunities for choir and jazz band
-Lessons and workshops in musical performance and associated arts such as drama or dance
-Classes and lessons in music performance and history
-And finally, opportunities for various community projects to record their music
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Structural & Infrastructural
- Performance capabilities and musical skill
- "Creative cities" and "creative industries"
- Music or performance as a profession
Over the years, opportunities for learning eventually changed into opportunities for working. Participants were able to use music to make money through performances and with that said, the researcher wanted to know if this
With that said, the researcher wanted to into the downtown east side, and examine some of the programs that exist. Specifically, programs that aim to enhance income levels and employment opportunities.
1. What are the social-structural and infrastructural distributions of socioeconomic status in most music projects that I studied and to which most such projects aspire?
2.In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, how have people working with music shifted socio-economic status, and expressed and circulated ideas about socio-economic status through narratives?
3.What are the implications for human health and mortality
With that said, the researcher wanted to into the downtown east side, and examine some of the programs that exist. Specifically, programs that aim to enhance income levels and employment opportunities.
1. What are the social-structural and infrastructural distributions of socioeconomic status in most music projects that I studied and to which most such projects aspire?
2.In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, how have people working with music shifted socio-economic status, and expressed and circulated ideas about socio-economic status through narratives?
3.What are the implications for human health and mortality
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Shifting narratives
- Subjective experiences of rank
- New possibilities
- Increasing opportunities
implications on health
- Encouraging clean and sober partcipants
- Performance for making sense of experience
- Income leads to better health and mortality
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Conclusions
- Facilitators receive more benefit than participants
- Lack of opportunity and status for the arts/musicians
- Limited but possible benefits related to SES and health
Hard to transcend the boundaries of socioeconomic status
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Critique
- "Implications on health" was not well explored
- Missed key components of health in analysis
- Understated role of music in subjective experiences of SES
- Type of methodology- qualitative vs. quantitative
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Question 1
- Are music programs the best way to increase SES?
- How can we incorporate the arts in other/better ways?
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question 2
- How can we create more reciporical relationships
- between facilitators and participants in the future?
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Question 3
- How can we change parts of our language to be more
- sensitive to populations like the one in the DTES?
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