Hilary Mo
Biographic Data
| ID | 668647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Mo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary |
| FAMILY NAME | Mo |
| SIGNATURE | MO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4813-2910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring communicative responses to collaborative music therapy and speech and language therapy in young children with acquired communication impairments
Play On
This article documents the project Play On , a series of online curated conversations held between community arts practitioners and researchers based in Ireland and Australia. The Play On series featured contributions from community musicians and artists, researchers, activists and Elders. Together, we considered the challenges and opportunities we encountered in our work and discussed how we might respond to urgent issues impacting our field, ou…
The Voice of Choice”
This essay queries how ideas about school choice traversed the Pacific in the late twentieth century. Specifically, it reconstructs and deconstructs the visits of two African American proponents of parental school choice, Annette “Polly” Williams and Howard Fuller, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1990s. Drawing from oral histories, newspapers, and archives in the United States and Aotearoa New Zealand, this essay explore…
Exploring the experiences of a person with dementia and their spouse who attended a telehealth music therapy programme
Introduction: There is an increased need for accessible psychosocial interventions that support both people with dementia and their spouses. Recent research demonstrates the benefits of music therapy and caregiver-delivered music therapy for this population. This paper contributes to the emerging evidence base on telehealth music therapy for people with dementia outside of a COVID-19 era when in-person services were available. Method: This explor…
Music therapy for young children with acquired communication impairments
Introduction: Acquired communication impairments (ACIs) can significantly hinder the development and functioning of language and communication in children, impeding their social interactions and self-expression. Music therapy is emerging as a favourable practice in supporting children with ACIs; however, a deeper understanding of the clinical practices of music therapists with this population is required to advance service provision.Method: This …
Follow the Musical Road”
There are many music experiences for people with dementia and their caregivers including but not limited to individualized playlists, music and singing groups, dementia-inclusive choirs and concerts, and music therapy. While the benefits of these music experiences have been well documented, an understanding of the differences between them is often absent. However, knowledge of and distinction between these experiences are crucial to people with d…
Lifting spirits and building community
A mixed-methods concurrent identical design was implemented to explore the following research question: what are the emotional, social, and practical impacts of group singing for women from a regeneration area? Members of an all-female community choir based in an area of disadvantage participated in a focus group and survey. The most significant quantitative finding was an increase in the overall perceived level of health, which seemed linked to …
Dementia-inclusive group-singing online during Covid-19
Introduction There is increasing evidence of the social, physical and cognitive benefits of group-singing for people living with dementia and their family carers. However, COVID-19 has necessitated the suspension of in-person group-singing globally. This study explores the impact of COVID-19 on dementia-inclusive singing groups and choirs in Ireland, and their facilitators' responses. It seeks to contribute to the limited literature on online gro…
Together in song
Introduction International research evidence on the physical, cognitive and social benefits of group singing for older people is growing rapidly. However, singing interventions are inconsistently reported, with details of intervention development, musical content and structure often omitted, impeding replicability and synthesis. This paper poses two research questions: (a) What specific guidelines for singing groups can the research team recommen…
Educated for Freedom
In Educated for Freedom Anna Mae Duane chronicles the educational and activist biographies of two African American abolitionists: James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, who met as children while students at the Mulberry Street New York African Free School (Nyafs) in the 1820s. Some readers may be familiar with Smith and Garnet. Born to enslaved mothers, each achieved notoriety. Upon graduating from Scotland's Glasgow University, Smith beca…
Promoting well-being among people with early-stage dementia and their family carers through community-based group singing
Evidence of multidimensional enhancement of well-being, absence of adverse effects, and accessibility of this musical medium support the increased provision of community-based singing groups for these populations
Walter C. Stern. Race and Education in New Orleans
In Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764–1960, Walter C. Stern explores how local white actors used school placement and construction policies to encourage residential segregation prior to 1960. Rather than viewing segregated schools as a consequence of segregated neighborhoods, Stern highlights how these institutions—and the controversies that surrounded them—facilitated spatial segregation and unequal educational…
Therapist and individual experiences and perceptions of music therapy for adolescents who stutter
Introduction: Affective reactions frequently reported by adolescents who stutter include embarrassment, frustration, and feelings of anxiety about further stuttering. It is possible that music therapy could enhance stuttering treatment outcomes; however, little is known about how individuals who stutter, and therapists working with this group, view such therapy. The purpose of this study was to explore individuals who stutter and therapist experi…
The Role of the Curator in Modern Hospitals
From Open Enrollment to Controlled Choice
In 1981, Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the first school district in America to replace its neighborhood schools with a “controlled choice” assignment plan, which considered parental preference and racial balance. This article considers the history preceding this decision to explore how and why some Americans became enamored with choice-based assignment at the expense of the neighborhood school in the late twentieth century. It argues that Camb…
Music therapy, spirituality and transcendence
This article explores the spiritual aspects of making music, with reference to music therapy practice and theory. The research questions addressed in this article are: (1) Does singing in a choir have spiritual health benefits? (2) How do people participating in music-making experience the spiritual and/or transcendent aspects of music? (3) Can music therapy play a role in supporting clients' spiritual health and expression?The article presents r…
Building a New Educational State
In Building a New Educational State Joan Malczewski explores how and why northern white philanthropists partnered with rural blacks to expand public education in the early twentieth-century South. While historians of education have appreciated northern foundations' contributions to southern black education after emancipation, they have missed the political motivations underlying this work. If white reformers championed black schools to cultivate …
Rethinking the medical in the medical humanities
To clinicians there are a number of striking features of the ever-evolving field of the medical humanities. The first is a perception of a predominantly unidirectional relationship between medicine and the humanities, generally in terms of what the arts and humanities have to offer medicine. The second is the portrayal of medical practice in terms of problems and negativities for which the medical humanities are seen to pose the solution rather t…
A fuller picture
Art therapy has a long history in mental healthcare, but requires an enhanced evidence base in order to better identify its precise role in contemporary services. This paper describes an evaluation of an art therapy programme in an acute adult psychiatry admission unit in Ireland. A mixed method research design was used. Quantitative data were collected through a survey of 35 staff members and 11 service users. Qualitative data included free text…
Gabriel A. Briggs. The New Negro in the Old South
In the first half of the twentieth century, African Americans left the Cotton Belt for the soon-to-be Rust Belt, trading agricultural work limited by drought and mechanization for the promise of socioeconomic mobility. These migrations transformed black life, shifting its locus from south to north and from rural to urban. Burgeoning black communities in industrializing cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York, emboldened with expectation a…
Perceptions of music therapy for older people among healthcare professionals
Music therapy is of great importance to patients and healthcare professionals, and thus more attention is warranted to better integrate and advance this programme. This study is important because although numerous studies have examined music therapy from a patient health perspective, no report has analysed the perceptions of healthcare providers on this intervention and their recommendations on further development of music therapy services
Assessing the Impact of the Inner Belt
Between 1948 and 1971, the Massachusetts Department of Public Works released plans to build a freeway through Cambridge. One route would carve up a working-class neighborhood while another would run alongside MIT. First, we assess the impact of the planning process. While no highway was built, housing stock declined and uncertainly complicated urban renewal. Second, we explore MIT’s role in this story. Because its campus lay near a proposed route…
Assessing the Necessity of a Wildlife Toxicology Certificate
This article details the study findings and methodology used in developing a survey instrument to assess the need for a professional certificate in wildlife toxicology. Following discussion at a 2007 wildlife toxicology conference, researchers used the Delphi process to develop a survey questionnaire that was administered to members of two professional societies. Survey results indicated a high level of variability in support for a wildlife toxic…
To Live an Antislavery Life
Journal Article To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class Get access To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class. By Erica L. Ball. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. xvi, 175 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $22.95.) Hilary Moss Hilary Moss Amherst CollegeAmherst, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
A review of qualitative methodologies used to explore patient perceptions of arts and healthcare
Although the importance of the arts in healthcare is increasingly recognised, further research is needed to investigate the mechanisms by which arts and health programmes achieve their impact. An overview of the qualitative methods used to explore patients' perceptions of these interventions is lacking. We reviewed the literature to gain insights into the qualitative methods used to explore patients' perceptions of the role of arts in healthcare …
Music therapy, spirituality and transcendence
This article explores the spiritual aspects of making music, with reference to music therapy practice and theory. The research questions addressed in this article are: (1) Does singing in a choir have spiritual health benefits? (2) How do people participating in music-making experience the spiritual and/or transcendent aspects of music? (3) Can music therapy play a role in supporting clients' spiritual health and expression?The article presents r…
What training do artists need to work in healthcare settings
Given the increased attention paid to the development of arts in healthcare settings, the need for a formalised training framework to enable artists to work comfortably and safely in healthcare settings has become pressing. This paper sets out a review of literature and best practice regarding the training of professional artists wishing to work in healthcare settings. The authors’ research confirms the gap in the arts sector with regard to such …
Promoting well-being among people with early-stage dementia and their family carers through community-based group singing
Evidence of multidimensional enhancement of well-being, absence of adverse effects, and accessibility of this musical medium support the increased provision of community-based singing groups for these populations
From Open Enrollment to Controlled Choice
In 1981, Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the first school district in America to replace its neighborhood schools with a “controlled choice” assignment plan, which considered parental preference and racial balance. This article considers the history preceding this decision to explore how and why some Americans became enamored with choice-based assignment at the expense of the neighborhood school in the late twentieth century. It argues that Camb…
Together in song
Introduction International research evidence on the physical, cognitive and social benefits of group singing for older people is growing rapidly. However, singing interventions are inconsistently reported, with details of intervention development, musical content and structure often omitted, impeding replicability and synthesis. This paper poses two research questions: (a) What specific guidelines for singing groups can the research team recommen…
Music therapy for young children with acquired communication impairments
Introduction: Acquired communication impairments (ACIs) can significantly hinder the development and functioning of language and communication in children, impeding their social interactions and self-expression. Music therapy is emerging as a favourable practice in supporting children with ACIs; however, a deeper understanding of the clinical practices of music therapists with this population is required to advance service provision.Method: This …
Dementia-inclusive group-singing online during Covid-19
Introduction There is increasing evidence of the social, physical and cognitive benefits of group-singing for people living with dementia and their family carers. However, COVID-19 has necessitated the suspension of in-person group-singing globally. This study explores the impact of COVID-19 on dementia-inclusive singing groups and choirs in Ireland, and their facilitators' responses. It seeks to contribute to the limited literature on online gro…
Therapist and individual experiences and perceptions of music therapy for adolescents who stutter
Introduction: Affective reactions frequently reported by adolescents who stutter include embarrassment, frustration, and feelings of anxiety about further stuttering. It is possible that music therapy could enhance stuttering treatment outcomes; however, little is known about how individuals who stutter, and therapists working with this group, view such therapy. The purpose of this study was to explore individuals who stutter and therapist experi…
A fuller picture
Art therapy has a long history in mental healthcare, but requires an enhanced evidence base in order to better identify its precise role in contemporary services. This paper describes an evaluation of an art therapy programme in an acute adult psychiatry admission unit in Ireland. A mixed method research design was used. Quantitative data were collected through a survey of 35 staff members and 11 service users. Qualitative data included free text…
Perceptions of music therapy for older people among healthcare professionals
Music therapy is of great importance to patients and healthcare professionals, and thus more attention is warranted to better integrate and advance this programme. This study is important because although numerous studies have examined music therapy from a patient health perspective, no report has analysed the perceptions of healthcare providers on this intervention and their recommendations on further development of music therapy services
Education's Inequity
New Haven, thou hast rashly done a deed , Which shrouds thy glory in a black eclipse; Whereof in view the hearts of good men bleed , The friend, yet, strange to tell, the foe of light! Preceptor of the age, yet dost deny To Brethren—countrymen—the common right Their empty minds with knowledge to supply! Encourager of learning-science-arts Yet hostile to a race who fain would learn! When from the dust a sable brother starts , Suffering thy cheeks …
Adam Rothman, Slave Country
The Tarring and Feathering of Thomas Paul Smith
The essay explores an 1851 incident of violence among black Bostonians centering on conflicts about the merits of school desegregation. The episode reveals differing concepts of and approaches to citizenship in the African-American community, tensions that were exacerbated by abolitionist activity, Revolutionary memory, and the Fugitive Slave Law
Eric Burin, Slavery and the Peculiar Solution
What training do artists need to work in healthcare settings
Given the increased attention paid to the development of arts in healthcare settings, the need for a formalised training framework to enable artists to work comfortably and safely in healthcare settings has become pressing. This paper sets out a review of literature and best practice regarding the training of professional artists wishing to work in healthcare settings. The authors’ research confirms the gap in the arts sector with regard to such …
A review of qualitative methodologies used to explore patient perceptions of arts and healthcare
Although the importance of the arts in healthcare is increasingly recognised, further research is needed to investigate the mechanisms by which arts and health programmes achieve their impact. An overview of the qualitative methods used to explore patients' perceptions of these interventions is lacking. We reviewed the literature to gain insights into the qualitative methods used to explore patients' perceptions of the role of arts in healthcare …
Assessing the Necessity of a Wildlife Toxicology Certificate
This article details the study findings and methodology used in developing a survey instrument to assess the need for a professional certificate in wildlife toxicology. Following discussion at a 2007 wildlife toxicology conference, researchers used the Delphi process to develop a survey questionnaire that was administered to members of two professional societies. Survey results indicated a high level of variability in support for a wildlife toxic…
To Live an Antislavery Life
Journal Article To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class Get access To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class. By Erica L. Ball. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. xvi, 175 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $22.95.) Hilary Moss Hilary Moss Amherst CollegeAmherst, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Assessing the Impact of the Inner Belt
Between 1948 and 1971, the Massachusetts Department of Public Works released plans to build a freeway through Cambridge. One route would carve up a working-class neighborhood while another would run alongside MIT. First, we assess the impact of the planning process. While no highway was built, housing stock declined and uncertainly complicated urban renewal. Second, we explore MIT’s role in this story. Because its campus lay near a proposed route…
Perceptions of music therapy for older people among healthcare professionals
Music therapy is of great importance to patients and healthcare professionals, and thus more attention is warranted to better integrate and advance this programme. This study is important because although numerous studies have examined music therapy from a patient health perspective, no report has analysed the perceptions of healthcare providers on this intervention and their recommendations on further development of music therapy services
Rethinking the medical in the medical humanities
To clinicians there are a number of striking features of the ever-evolving field of the medical humanities. The first is a perception of a predominantly unidirectional relationship between medicine and the humanities, generally in terms of what the arts and humanities have to offer medicine. The second is the portrayal of medical practice in terms of problems and negativities for which the medical humanities are seen to pose the solution rather t…
A fuller picture
Art therapy has a long history in mental healthcare, but requires an enhanced evidence base in order to better identify its precise role in contemporary services. This paper describes an evaluation of an art therapy programme in an acute adult psychiatry admission unit in Ireland. A mixed method research design was used. Quantitative data were collected through a survey of 35 staff members and 11 service users. Qualitative data included free text…
Gabriel A. Briggs. The New Negro in the Old South
In the first half of the twentieth century, African Americans left the Cotton Belt for the soon-to-be Rust Belt, trading agricultural work limited by drought and mechanization for the promise of socioeconomic mobility. These migrations transformed black life, shifting its locus from south to north and from rural to urban. Burgeoning black communities in industrializing cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York, emboldened with expectation a…
Building a New Educational State
In Building a New Educational State Joan Malczewski explores how and why northern white philanthropists partnered with rural blacks to expand public education in the early twentieth-century South. While historians of education have appreciated northern foundations' contributions to southern black education after emancipation, they have missed the political motivations underlying this work. If white reformers championed black schools to cultivate …
The Role of the Curator in Modern Hospitals
From Open Enrollment to Controlled Choice
In 1981, Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the first school district in America to replace its neighborhood schools with a “controlled choice” assignment plan, which considered parental preference and racial balance. This article considers the history preceding this decision to explore how and why some Americans became enamored with choice-based assignment at the expense of the neighborhood school in the late twentieth century. It argues that Camb…
Music therapy, spirituality and transcendence
This article explores the spiritual aspects of making music, with reference to music therapy practice and theory. The research questions addressed in this article are: (1) Does singing in a choir have spiritual health benefits? (2) How do people participating in music-making experience the spiritual and/or transcendent aspects of music? (3) Can music therapy play a role in supporting clients' spiritual health and expression?The article presents r…
Promoting well-being among people with early-stage dementia and their family carers through community-based group singing
Evidence of multidimensional enhancement of well-being, absence of adverse effects, and accessibility of this musical medium support the increased provision of community-based singing groups for these populations
Walter C. Stern. Race and Education in New Orleans
In Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764–1960, Walter C. Stern explores how local white actors used school placement and construction policies to encourage residential segregation prior to 1960. Rather than viewing segregated schools as a consequence of segregated neighborhoods, Stern highlights how these institutions—and the controversies that surrounded them—facilitated spatial segregation and unequal educational…
Therapist and individual experiences and perceptions of music therapy for adolescents who stutter
Introduction: Affective reactions frequently reported by adolescents who stutter include embarrassment, frustration, and feelings of anxiety about further stuttering. It is possible that music therapy could enhance stuttering treatment outcomes; however, little is known about how individuals who stutter, and therapists working with this group, view such therapy. The purpose of this study was to explore individuals who stutter and therapist experi…
Educated for Freedom
In Educated for Freedom Anna Mae Duane chronicles the educational and activist biographies of two African American abolitionists: James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, who met as children while students at the Mulberry Street New York African Free School (Nyafs) in the 1820s. Some readers may be familiar with Smith and Garnet. Born to enslaved mothers, each achieved notoriety. Upon graduating from Scotland's Glasgow University, Smith beca…
Lifting spirits and building community
A mixed-methods concurrent identical design was implemented to explore the following research question: what are the emotional, social, and practical impacts of group singing for women from a regeneration area? Members of an all-female community choir based in an area of disadvantage participated in a focus group and survey. The most significant quantitative finding was an increase in the overall perceived level of health, which seemed linked to …
Dementia-inclusive group-singing online during Covid-19
Introduction There is increasing evidence of the social, physical and cognitive benefits of group-singing for people living with dementia and their family carers. However, COVID-19 has necessitated the suspension of in-person group-singing globally. This study explores the impact of COVID-19 on dementia-inclusive singing groups and choirs in Ireland, and their facilitators' responses. It seeks to contribute to the limited literature on online gro…
Together in song
Introduction International research evidence on the physical, cognitive and social benefits of group singing for older people is growing rapidly. However, singing interventions are inconsistently reported, with details of intervention development, musical content and structure often omitted, impeding replicability and synthesis. This paper poses two research questions: (a) What specific guidelines for singing groups can the research team recommen…
Follow the Musical Road”
There are many music experiences for people with dementia and their caregivers including but not limited to individualized playlists, music and singing groups, dementia-inclusive choirs and concerts, and music therapy. While the benefits of these music experiences have been well documented, an understanding of the differences between them is often absent. However, knowledge of and distinction between these experiences are crucial to people with d…
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