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“I get sick if I don’t go to choir practice!” (Cristin, choral singer, diagnosed with leukemia) Choral Singing as a Health Promoting Resource

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Choral Singing as a Health Promoting Resource

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“I get sick if I don’t go to choir practice!”

(Cristin, choral singer, diagnosed with leukemia)

Choral Singing as a Health Promoting Resource

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Health=quality of life=well-being=a better life.

A notion of health

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Mastery/empowerment Vitality Social belonging Meaning and coherence

Aspects of a good life

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a tool for developing competency and empowerment

a resource in building social networks

a producer of vitality a way of providing meaning and coherence in life

Ruud: Music-making as

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Local community choir

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Multicultural gospel choir

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Chamber choir

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Please feel free to contact me: Anne Haugland Balsnes Ass. Prof. of Music, Ansgar University College E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +47 48 18 71 08