“Humanising Healthcare Spaces”: Report on the Development and Impact of a Music Collaboration Between Community Music and Donald Gordon Medical Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2017-07-03 DOI:10.1080/18125980.2017.1379884

S. Harrop-Allin, V. Hume, J. Fabian, H. Etheredge, Michael McCallum

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ABSTRACT This article reports on the evaluation of a new partnership between the University of the Witwatersrand’s Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC) and the Music Division at the Wits School of Arts (WSOA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 2015, the partnership aims to bring live music to the wards of WDGMC through a student placement in the hospital, which forms part of the Bachelor of Music students’ fourth year Community Music course. The article examines the effects of live music performances on patients, staff, and hospital spaces more broadly. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire, nurse, and student focus groups, as well as student academic essays. The results revealed a range of benefits and suggest that live music performances may be able to humanise hospital spaces, enabling different modes of musical engagements that confer agency and control to patients, their carers, and nurses. The article concludes by advocating for a mutually-beneficial relationship between the health sciences and the arts, through community music interventions such as this pilot Wits “music in hospital” project.

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“人性化医疗空间”:社区音乐与南非约翰内斯堡威特沃特斯兰德大学唐纳德戈登医疗中心音乐合作的发展和影响报告

摘要本文报道了威特沃特斯兰德大学威茨唐纳德戈登医学中心（WDGMC）与南非约翰内斯堡威茨艺术学院（WSOA）音乐系之间的新合作关系评估。该合作伙伴关系成立于2015年，旨在通过在医院的学生安置，将现场音乐带到WDGMC的病房，这是音乐学士学生四年级社区音乐课程的一部分。本文更广泛地考察了现场音乐表演对患者、工作人员和医院空间的影响。数据是通过问卷调查、护士、学生焦点小组以及学生学术论文的方式收集的。研究结果揭示了一系列好处，并表明现场音乐表演可能能够使医院空间人性化，实现不同的音乐参与模式，赋予患者、他们的护理人员和护士代理权和控制权。文章最后通过社区音乐干预，如Wits“医院音乐”试点项目，倡导健康科学和艺术之间的互利关系。

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