Melissa Forbes
How singers can help address our crisis of connection
Cover photo by Colin Michael on Unsplash This post is based on a longer article published in Voice and Speech Review which you can read...
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Melissa Forbes
- Apr 24
- 2 min
🔆Creative and performing artists are positively energizing community leaders 🔆
The idea of positively energizing leadership comes from the work of Kim C. Cameron, and recently I came across one of Aesop's fables,...
Melissa Forbes
- Mar 14
- 3 min
Unlocking the power of persuasive academic writing: Insights from Time to Write Persuasively by Karyn Gonano
I love reading books about writing. I find they can really help when motivation is waning. Some of my favourites are: Write No Matter...
Melissa Forbes
- Feb 15
- 1 min
Alicia Keys' voice crack during the Superbowl halftime show reminds us that "to err is human", and that we are all singers
As a society, we have impossibly high standards for professional singers and a low tolerance for imperfection. We then apply these same...
Melissa Forbes
- Jan 29
- 5 min
Your voice is like a car...is that the full picture, though?
Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash There's a well-known analogy within singing voice pedagogy circles that the voice is like a car. The...
Melissa Forbes
- Dec 12, 2023
- 1 min
Being music podcast
In this episode, Dr. Melissa Forbes from the University of Southern Queensland in Australia discusses the relationship between performing...
Melissa Forbes
- Nov 22, 2023
- 1 min
Interpersonal neurobiology and group singing
I recently gave a short presentation on this topic at the SIMM-Posium in Brisbane and I thought I would record a version of it to post...
Wendy Hargreaves and Melissa Forbes
- Oct 21, 2022
- 1 min
We studied the ‘bibles’ of jazz standards – and found sexism lurking in the strangest place
Thumbnail image CC-BY-NC Tristan Hargreaves
Melissa Forbes
- Apr 17, 2022
- 0 min
Melissa Forbes
- Feb 13, 2022
- 1 min
Singing for people with Parkinson's
Singing has been shown to have a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits for people Parkinson's. My own research has shown that these...
Melissa Forbes
- Feb 12, 2022
- 1 min
The jazz singer’s mind shows us how to improvise through life itself
Photo by israel palacio on Unsplash
Melissa Forbes
- Apr 4, 2021
- 1 min
meaningful work for musicians
A recent article of mine (co-authored with Assoc Prof Irene Bartlett) examined the work of health and wellbeing singing group...
Melissa Forbes
- Jan 16, 2020
- 2 min
(my) imposter syndrome is boring
There is nothing like an existential crisis to drive you back to the drawing board to reconsider everything you think you know, believe...
Melissa Forbes
- Dec 7, 2018
- 4 min
is there a place for compassion in higher music education?
"By making space for diverse musics, learning styles, and pedagogical approaches, we shift our attention away from exacting external...
Melissa Forbes
- Aug 3, 2018
- 3 min
music educators—are you comfortable making mistakes?
I've spent a great deal of time reading about learning new skills and achieving mastery. Reading highlights include George Leonard's...
Melissa Forbes
- Jul 27, 2018
- 4 min
the essentialist academic—a contradiction in terms?
As an academic—and particularly as a music academic—I am aware that I occupy an extremely privileged place in society. Academic roles...
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