Music and the Experience of Memory Loss

This book is a creative and critical exploration of the memory loss experience. Drawing on in-depth case studies based on primary research, interviews, approaches from music therapy, and theory from Derrida, Malabou and Royle, it explores how we might better support people living with memory loss.

Samantha Harrold is a writer, composer, musician, teacher, and medical humanities researcher. Her doctorate on the experience of memory loss is from the University of Sussex, UK.

1. Introduction, 2. Sacks, Mitchell, and the question of value, 3. Five strange stories, 4. The uncanny, the archive and the plastic brain, 5. An alternate way of being and implications for future practice