ABSTRACT This article reports on the evaluation of a new partnership between the University of the Witwatersrand’s Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre (WDGMC) and the Music Division at the Wits School of Arts (WSOA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 2015, the partnership aims to bring live music to the wards of WDGMC through a student placement in the hospital, which forms part of the Bachelor of Music students’ fourth year Community Music course. The article examines the effects of live music performances on patients, staff, and hospital spaces more broadly. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire, nurse, and student focus groups, as well as student academic essays. The results revealed a range of benefits and suggest that live music performances may be able to humanise hospital spaces, enabling different modes of musical engagements that confer agency and control to patients, their carers, and nurses. The article concludes by advocating for a mutually-beneficial relationship between the health sciences and the arts, through community music interventions such as this pilot Wits “music in hospital” project.

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“人性化的医疗保健空间”：南非约翰内斯堡威特沃特斯兰德大学社区音乐与唐纳德·戈登医学中心之间的音乐合作的发展及其影响的报告

摘要本文报道了威特沃特斯兰德大学的智者唐纳德·戈登医学中心（WDGMC）与南非约翰内斯堡的智者艺术学院（WSOA）的音乐系之间的新合作关系的评估。该合作伙伴关系成立于2015年，旨在通过在医院的学生实习将现场音乐带到WDGMC病房，这是音乐学士课程学生四年级社区音乐课程的一部分。本文更广泛地研究了现场音乐表演对患者，员工和医院场所的影响。数据通过问卷，护士和学生焦点小组以及学生的学术论文收集。结果显示了一系列好处，并表明现场音乐表演可以使医院空间人性化，赋予患者，患者护理人员和护士以代理和控制权的不同音乐参与方式。本文最后通过倡导社区音乐干预（例如该飞行员Wits“医院音乐”项目）倡导健康科学与艺术之间的互惠关系。