Contemporary Research

There is a wealth of contemporary research in Music Education, Music Psychology and Music and the Brain available online.

Here is a selection of papers, abstracts and articles that I have found useful in informing many projects in schools:

Musical Training Influences Linguistic Abilities in 8-Year-Old Children

http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/3/712.full

Music and the brain: three links to language (A D Patel)

https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298457.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199298457-e-019

Relating Pitch Awareness to Phonemic Awareness in Children: Implications for Tone-Deafness and Dyslexia

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108552/

Does Music Education Enhance the Developing Brain and Academic Achievement?(R P Martin)

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/BrainOnMusic/Martin.BrainOnMusic.html

Benefits of Music and Movement for Children

https://www.musikgarten.org/benefits-of-music–movementent.cfm

Implementing a Musical Program to Promote Preschool Children’sVocabulary Development ( I Moyeda)

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1084911.pdf

How non-music majors experience the value of participating in music.  R.Bures

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.622.3116&rep=rep1&type=pdf

The Effects of Singing and Chanting on the Reading Achievement and Attitudes of first graders.   K.H.Cochran 2008

http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1220473778/umi-clemson-1814.pdf

The Effects of Music Instruction on Emergent Literacy Capacities among Preschool Children: A Literature Review

https://ecrp.illinois.edu/v10n1/bolduc.html

Phonemic Awareness and Musical Pitch Discrimination: Related? A Strout 2004

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.504.899&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Can Music be used to teach Reading?  R.Butzlaff 2000

http://www.artsedsearch.org/summaries/can-music-be-used-to-teach-reading

Can Music Instruction Affect Children’s Cognitive Development?  (Commentary)

http://www.ericdigests.org/2004-3/cognitive.html

The power of music: its impact on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people  S. Hallam (Summary)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0255761410370658

Music Psychologists Adrian North and David Hargreaves have written many fascinating papers on the effect of music on consumer behaviour.

Their book is highly recommended:

The Social and Applied Psychology of Music by A. North and D. Hargreaves

OUP 2008     ISBN-10: 0198567421

Here are some links to abstracts of individual papers:

The Effect of Musical Style on Restaurant Customers’ Spending

Adrian C North, Amber Shilcock, and David J Hargreaves

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Effect-of-Musical-Style-on-Restaurant-Spending-North-Shilcock/01be3fd721320e9391dfdd12b257721160d34c60

The influence of in-store music on wine selections.

By North, Adrian C.; Hargreaves, David J.; McKendrick, Jennifer

http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/psycarticles-reg/the-influence-of-in-store-music-on-wine-selections-fcS0wk7n6w

And this very interesting discussion of the potential dangers of a systematic explicit approach to teaching social and emotional skills:

The curious case of the tail wagging the dog

Carol Craig, Centre for Wellbeing, Glasgow. Feb 2009.

http://www.centreforconfidence.co.uk/projects.php?pid=56