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We are what we listen to: The Impact of Music on Individual and Social Health (Music and Health) Paperback – September 20, 2021

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In this groundbreaking union of art and science, soprano, musicologist, and physician Patricia Caicedo explores the connection between music—its performance, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and health.

Drawing on the latest research and musical examples, Caicedo reveals:
- How the brain works when you listen and make music.
- The relationship between rhythm, movement, and health.
- The relationship between pleasure, emotion, and music.
- How music has been a crucial element of the human experience since the beginning of the species and how it is fundamental for maintaining communities.
- The importance of music in pain and death.
- How music increases your creativity and produces happiness and a sense of purpose in life.
We are what we listen to: the impact of music on individual health will attract readers of Oliver Sacks and David Byrne, as it is an unprecedented, transdisciplinary investigation that contextualizes the music and its effects on historical, scientific, and social levels. It is an essential book for music lovers and everybody seeking to improve their mental and physical health.

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This thoroughly researched written book is the result of a lifetime of careful study and wide experience. It contains revelations on virtually every page concerning the therapeutic benefits of music." Dr. Walter Clark, Professor of Musicology, University of California Riverside.

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I appreciate this book because it is written in a way that activates the reader's senses in a way that not only informs but efficiently urges us to participate creatively, letting the music do its magic to us." Alfons Karabuda, President International Music Council.
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Patricia Caicedo is a soprano, a musicologist and a physician. She has released eleven albums and published numerous scholarly editions of scores and books, including The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations, the go-to history on its subject. She is also an avid performer of these works, having performed at important venues of Europe and the Americas in addition to founding and directing the Barcelona Festival of Song, which focuses on the performance and study of Latin American and Iberian art songs in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese. She created Mundo Arts, a music publishing house, a record label, and an online store. Caicedo is the host of the podcast Latin American and Iberian Art Song, in which she interviews composers and leading experts from across the world.Patricia has a Ph.D. in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Medical Doctor degree from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina.

Tess Knighton holds MA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge and is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. From May 2011 she has been an ICREA Research Professor, until May 2020 at the Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC), and subsequently at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She held a Marie Curie Foundation grant (2012-6) for a research project on the urban musics of early modern Barcelona, and from September 2020 holds a Spanish government grant (I+D) on the contribution of confraternities and guilds to the urban soundscape in the Iberian Peninsula, 1400-1700. Her research interests embrace music and culture in the Iberian world from the 15th to the 17th centuries, and she has published widely in this field. She is Series Editor of the Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music series for The Boydell Press and forms part of several editorial and advisory committees in Spain and in Europe.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mundo Arts Publications; 1st edition (September 20, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 174 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1733903542
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1733903547
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.44 x 9 inches
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Patricia Caicedo is a soprano, a musicologist, and a physician whose scholarship and performances center around Latin American and Iberian art songs and the intersection of music and health. Her research is framed under de-colonial studies.

She has released eleven albums and published numerous academic articles and scholarly editions of scores and books, including The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations, the go-to history on its subject, and her groundbreaking book, We are what we listen to: the impact of music on individual and social health.

She has performed worldwide in addition to founding and directing the Barcelona Festival of Song. Patricia is often invited to present lectures and masterclasses at prestigious universities and conservatories worldwide.

Her interest in exploring the possibilities of technology brought her to create Mundo Arts, an Internet company that developed into a Music Publisher, a Record label, and an Online Store.

Patricia holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Medical Doctor’s degree from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina. She is a former Board Member of the International Music Council.

𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐨.𝐜𝐨𝐦

𝐂𝐃𝐬: Signat l'amic del cor: Catalan Art Songs by Nicolas Gutierrez (2020), Más que nunca: Colombian Art Songs by Jaime León (2019), Miraba la noche el alma: Art Songs by Latin American women composers (2016), Amb veu de dona: Catalan art songs by women composers (2016), De Catalunya vinc… Catalan Art Songs of the 20th & 21th Centuries (2015), Aves y Ensueños: Colombian Art Songs by Jaime León (2011), Estrela é Lua nova (2011), De mi corazón latino - Latin Songs of All Time (2010), A mi ciudad Nativa: Canciones Artísticas de América Latina (2005) y Lied: Art songs of Latin America (2001).

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬: We are what we listen to: the impact of music on individual and social health (2021), Anthology of Latin American and Iberian Art Songs by Women Composers Vol. 1 & 2 (2022), Spanish Diction for Singers: A Guide for the Pronuntiation of the Peninsular and American Spanish (2019), The Latin American Art Song (2018), Los sonidos de las naciones imaginadas: La canción artística latinoamericana en el contexto del nacionalismo musical (2018), The Latin American Art Song: a Critical Anthology and Interpretative Resource for Singers (2005), The Colombian Art Song – Jaime Leon: Analysis & Compilation of his works for voice and piano Vol.1&2 (2009), The Bolivian Art Song (2011), El Barcelona Festival of Song: construyendo una narrativa para la canción artística Latinoamericana e ibérica (2014), The Argentinian Art Song (2015).

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Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2023
Dr. Caicedo is so passionate and thorough when it comes to music I am so happy to have this book and all the knowledge that comes with it.
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2022
I will use the book in a writing class called “what to Listen for in the World.” I will pair it with Levitin’s the World in Six Songs, and
‘ Your Playlist Can Change Your Life.’

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Reviewed in Spain on September 13, 2023
"I wholeheartedly recommend 'We are what we listen to' – an effortlessly captivating, scientifically enlightening exploration of the profound relationship between music and our health. This book seamlessly weaves together historical insights and cutting-edge neuroscientific research, making it not just an easy read but an utterly fascinating journey into the transformative power of music."