Dr. Benjamin Koen
Associate Professor, Department of Music
Music Education, Cognition, and Society
Medical Ethnomusicology; Music, the Mind, and Meditation
Jazz and World Music; Improvisation and Creativity
Holistic Health, Fitness, and Entrepreneurship
https://bunews.hkbu.edu.hk/news/knowledge/music-and-wellbeing
Dr. Koen is an international leader in the research, practice, performance, and teaching of music, meditation, improvisation, healing, health, and wellness. Dr. Koen is involved in several interrelated projects exploring music, the mind, and meditation in healing and wellbeing, goal achievement, and entrepreneurship.
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Featured Project
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The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology. New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780199756261; Published: April 27, 2011 by Oxford University Press (570 pages)
All Projects
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Medical Ethnomusicology and the Promise of Music, Health and Healing.
The potential power of music and the expressive arts to participate in and transform the discourse of health and medicine is greater now than ever before.
Medical Ethnomusicology and Psychological Flexibility in Healing, Health and Wellness.
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II: 111-123. New York: Routledge
My Heart Opens and My Spirit Flies: Musical Exemplars of Psychological Flexibility in Health and Healing
Ethos: The Journal of Psychological Anthropology 41.2: 174-198
Beyond the Roof of the World: Music, Prayer, and Healing in the Pamir Mountains
ISBN 9780195367744; Published on: 2008 by Oxford University Press (240 pages)