title: Music as social medicine: two perspectives on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
abstract: The social power of music can effect stable and positive changes in individual health and communities that have significant health risks. Two observers, a medical student and a music student, discuss respectively the ideals and challenges of this principle put into practice. Their reflections about the role of music as social therapy and space for cultural communication stem from their one-week involvement with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at its summer institute in Spain.
authors.affiliation: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Washington
authors.forename: Devin G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Beecher
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music; D009147:Music Therapy; D011057:Politics; D011634:Public Health; D013030:Spain; D014857:Warfare