ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021
Music as youth empowerment: creating connection to self and others
Can music solve global challenges, lead to improved connection and empowerment, foster an inclusive society? I introduce music engagement as a ubiquitous daily resource to advance a critical capacity in a modern world: youth ability to connect with self and others. The challenge of assessing music as a human resource is that it functions at emotional, bodily, and situated levels of experience that are difficult to objectively measure. However, such aspects are integral to state-of-the-art conceptions of human cognition and, further, advancements in empirical research now enable their quantitative assessment. In MUSICONNECT, I will conduct groundbreaking research to address the…
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