By Lloyd Mudiwa. Hearts and lungs pump better to the tune of disco beats, according to the findings of a recent study. While finding that musical tracks in general aid the performance of chest compressions, the study, however, failed to establish the track that elicits the best performance of a cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Paul O’Connor was at Tallaght Hospital recently to witness the world premiere of Irish composer Ian Wilson’s musical take on stoke. As the writer Rachel Cusk has put it, hospital is “a place of steel, a place where things happen, where event is irresistible” and so it is not an ideal setting for classical music [...]
John Garvey looks at the evidence explaining how music therapy can enhance rehabilitation in stroke patients and help them achieve better health and well being People who experience a stroke often encounter enormous changes in every aspect of their lives. The result is often that a huge emotional and social adjustment is required to adapt [...]
With the explosion of summer festivals over the last few decades, Dr John Wallace looks at the music event that began it all. We like festivals. They can generate fantasy and freedom. Some fans plan their music festivals from the time they throw out the Christmas tree. They look forward to their eventual emergence from [...]
John Wallace looks at the recently restored film Help! starring The Beatles What impressed John Lennon about Paul McCartney when they first met in 1957, was that the 16-year-old McCartney could tune his own guitar. Lennon could not. Paul could also play When the Saints Come Marching In on the trumpet. So, he had no [...]
Dr John Wallace takes a nostalgic look back at the histories and the rock ‘n’ roll craziness behind some of the well-known artists that are coming to our shores to perform this summer. An impressive range of musical acts are due to perform in Ireland in the coming months. They include Neil Young, formerly of [...]
Dr John Wallace looks at a book detailing the history of the most influential magazine in pop culture, Rolling Stone, which doubles as a history of the culture of recent times A fascinating book, Rolling Stone, 1000 Covers, is not just about the evolution of a magazine, but about the evolution of the culture of [...]
In just three short years in the late 1970s, punk provoked shock, cynicism and bafflement. This new musical era, dating from 1976 until 1979, was characterised by loud energetic music, torn jeans and safety pins. Punk was essentially a back-to-basics movement and a reaction against the ‘flower power’ of the late 1960s. It mocked the [...]
Music therapy is advocated by a paucity of clinical evidence in modern health care literature. The group music therapy service is offered in three day centres within Mayo Mental Health Services and places equal emphasis on both the needs and requests of service users. The average attendance to group sessions is between 10 and 12 [...]
Maybe the numbers weren’t quite what the organisers expected and certainly the weather wasn’t what we’d all have liked, but, despite all that, the recent World Fleadh in Portlaoise seems to have been a hit. I had great intentions of going to workshops and sitting in on the odd seisiún but, between the jigs and [...]
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