Musgrave, George. 2026. Why Musicians Suffer, and What Can Be Done About It: Mental Health, Wellbeing and the Music Industry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Musgrave, George. 2024. The England No One Cares About: Lyrics from Suburbia. London: 缅北强奸幼女 Press. ISBN 9781913380663
Gross, Sally-Anne and Musgrave, George. 2020. Can Music Make You Sick? Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition. London: University of Westminster Press. ISBN 9781912656646
Book Section
Reddington, Jamie and Musgrave, George. 2026. 鈥榃hat Is It That We鈥檙e Doing Here?鈥�: Pedagogical Tensions, Uncertainties and Reflexivity in Higher Popular Music Education. In: Guy Morrow and Carsten Winter, eds. Music Ecosystems: Opportunities and Challenges. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
Musgrave, George. 2026. Songwriting and Career Musicianship as a Technology of the Self: Autosociobiographical Reflections on Music and Wellbeing. In: Mark Donnelly and Richard Mills, eds. Song, Music and Wellbeing. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Musgrave, George. 2024. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire: Music Education, Mental Health, and Our Students鈥� Futures. In: David Arditi and Ryan Nolan, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 119-135. ISBN 9783031640124
Musgrave, George. 2022. 鈥楲osing Work, Losing Purpose鈥�: Representations of Musicians鈥� Mental Health in the Time of Covid-19. In: Guy Morrow; Daniel Nordg氓rd and Peter Tschmuck, eds. Rethinking the Music Business: Music Contexts, Rights, Data and, COVID-19. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 11-28. ISBN 9783031095313
Musgrave, George. 2022. Lessons from the Loss of Avicii: Business Ethics, Responsibility, and Mental Wellbeing. In: UNSPECIFIED, ed. SAGE Business Cases. London: SAGE Publications.
Article
Clift, Stephen; McCrary, J. Matt; Kaasgaard, Mette; Kreutz, Gunter; Musgrave, George; Danso, Andrew; Silverstein-Bamford, Joshua; Pelowski, Matthew; Davies, Christina; Schurig, Eva; K枚ehler, Friederike; Bungay, Hilary; Holt, Nicola; Jensen, Anita; Kahlil, Radwa; Phillips, Kate; Pickard, Angela; Thun-Hohenstein, Leonard; Comeau, Gilles; Martin, Tenley and Grebosz-Haring, Katarzyna. 2026. Arts, Cultural Engagement and Health Inequalities: Critical Reflections on the UK Creative Health Review (2023). Cultural Trends, ISSN 0954-8963
Musgrave, George and Gross, Sally-Anne. 2026. Psychic Disjunctures in Denmark: Danish Female Musicians鈥� Anxieties as a Labour of Believability. European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-5494
Musgrave, George; Carney, Daniel; Silver, Emma and Tibber, Marc S.. 2025. "Working in the Content Factory": Musicians鈥� Social Media Use and Mental Health as Seen Through the Lens of a Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioural Conceptualisation. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1542407. ISSN 1664-1078
Musgrave, George. 2025. #WeAreViable, aren鈥檛 we? Music careers, state support, and the political feasibility of a Basic Income for the Arts. Cultural Trends, ISSN 0954-8963
Musgrave, George; Gross, Sally-Anne and Carney, Daniel. 2025. Determinants of Anxiety, Depression and Subjective Wellbeing among Musicians in Denmark: Findings from the 鈥榃hen Music Speaks鈥� Project. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 66(3), pp. 429-445. ISSN 0036-5564
Musgrave, George and Lamis, Dorian. 2025. Suicide, the music industry, and a call to action. Frontiers Science News (Health),
Musgrave, George and Lamis, Dorian. 2025. Musicians, the music industry, and suicide: Epidemiology, risk factors, and suggested prevention approaches. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, 1507772. ISSN 2296-2565
Musgrave, George; Gross, Sally-Anne and Klein, Maike. 2024. The dark side of optimism: Musical dreams, belief, and gambling. Musicae Scientiae, 28(4), pp. 634-648. ISSN 1029-8649
Kaasgaard, Mette; Grebosz-Haring, Katarzyna; Davies, Christina; Musgrave, George; Shiriraam, Jahnusha; McCrary, J. Matt and Clift, Stephen. 2024. Is it premature to formulate recommendations for policy and practice, based on culture and health research? A robust critique of the CultureForHealth (2022) report. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1414070. ISSN 2296-2565
Clift, Stephen; Bathke, Arne; Davies, Christina; Daffern, Helena; Grebosz-Haring, Katarzyna; Kaasgaard, Mette; McCrary, J. Matt; Musgrave, George and Thun-Hohenstein, Leonard. 2024. The WHO-Lancet Global Series on the Health Benefits of the Arts: A Response to Sajnani and Fietje. The Lancet, 403(10434), P1335. ISSN 0140-6736
Musgrave, George; Howard, Charlie; Schofield, Amy; Silver, Emma and Tibber, Marc S. 2023. Mental health the music industry: An evolving intervention landscape. The Lancet Psychiatry, 10(5), pp. 311-313. ISSN 2215-0366
Loveday, Catherine; Musgrave, George and Gross, Sally-Anne. 2023. Predicting anxiety, depression and wellbeing in professional and non-professional musicians. Psychology of Music, 51(2), pp. 508-522. ISSN 0305-7356
Musgrave, George. 2023. Music and wellbeing vs. musicians鈥� wellbeing: examining the paradox of music-making positively impacting wellbeing, but musicians suffering from poor mental health. Cultural Trends, 32(3), pp. 280-295. ISSN 0954-8963
Musgrave, George. 2023. Musicians, their relationships, and their wellbeing: Creative labour, relational work. Poetics, 96, 101762. ISSN 0304-422X
Clift, Stephen; Daffern, Helena; Davies, Christina; Grebosz-Haring, Katarzyna; Kaasgaard, Mette; McCrary, J. Matt and Musgrave, George. 2022. Culture for Health? Arts Professional,
Leisewitz, Adrian and Musgrave, George. 2022. Does Spotify Create Attachment? Algorithmic Playlists, Intermediation and the Artist-Fan Relationship. Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 14(1), pp. 75-100. ISSN 2000-1525
Chaparro, Gerardo and Musgrave, George. 2021. Moral Music Management: Ethical Decision-Making After Avicii. International Journal of Music Business Research, 10(1), pp. 3-16. ISSN 2227-5789
Musgrave, George. 2020. Avicii: True Stories - Review. Dancecult Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 12(1), pp. 94-97. ISSN 1947-5403
Musgrave, George. 2019. Making Sense of My Creativity: Reflecting on Digital Autoethnography. Journal of Artistic and Creative Education, 13(1), pp. 1-11. ISSN 1832 鈥� 0465
Musgrave, George. 2017. Collaborating to Compete: The Role of Cultural Intermediaries in Hypercompetition. International Journal of Music Business Research, 6(2), pp. 41-68. ISSN 2227-5789
Conference or Workshop Item
Musgrave, George and Gross, Sally-Anne. 2018. 'Music Minds Matter: Where Do We Go From Here?'. In: BBC Introducing LIVE. London, Tobacco Docks. 8 November 2018.
Musgrave, George. 2017. 'Control and Autonomy in the Digital Music Business'. In: The 8th Vienna Music Business Research Days. University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria 12-14 September 2017.
Broadcast
Nomvula, Amy; Day, Sam; Musgrave, George and Gross, Sally. 2018. Can Music Make You Sick: The Pitfalls of the Music Industry.
Professional Activity
Dencik, Lina; Brand, Jessica; Gill, Rosalind; Kivotidis, Dimitrios and Musgrave, George. 2024. Submission of evidence to the UK Parliament's Business and Trade Select Committee 'Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill' Inquiry.
Musgrave, George; Dinardi, Cecilia; Franklin, Michael; Murphy, Oonagh and Prime, Sian. 2022. Submission of evidence to the UK Parliament House of Lords 鈥楢 Creative Future鈥� Inquiry.
Gross, Sally-Anne and Musgrave, George. 2022. Submission of evidence to the UK Parliament Women and Equalities Committee 'Misogyny in Music' Inquiry.
Musgrave, George and Gross, Sally-Anne. 2022. Submission of evidence to the Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre (PEC) 'Good Work Review'.
Musgrave, George. 2022. Submission of evidence to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) 鈥楳usic and streaming market study鈥�.
Musgrave, George. 2022. Royal Musical Association (RMA) Music and Mental Health Group Committee: Research Co-ordinator.
Report
Tibber, Marc S; Silver, Emma; Musgrave, George; Zwaan, Koos and Houtzager, Maartje. 2025. Slim omgaan met social media: zichtbaar zijn en jezelf blijven. Project Report. Hogeschool Inholland, Netherlands.
Tibber, Marc S; Silver, Emma and Musgrave, George. 2025. Flourishing Online: A musician's guide to healthy social media use. Other. 缅北强奸幼女/University College London, London.
Musgrave, George; Gross, Sally-Anne and Carney, Daniel. 2024. When Music Speaks - Mental Health and Next Steps in the Danish Music Industry. Part 3 - Danish Music Creators' Working Lives and Mental Health Wants. Project Report. Danish Partnership for Sustainable Development in Music, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Musgrave, George and Gross, Sally-Anne. 2024. When Music Speaks - Mental Health and Next Steps in the Danish Music Industry. Part 4 - Final Recommendations. Project Report. Danish Partnership for Sustainable Development in Music, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Musgrave, George; Gross, Sally-Anne and Carney, Daniel. 2024. When Music Speaks: Mental Health and Next Steps in the Danish Music lndustry. Part 2 - A Review of Models of Musicians' Mental Health Interventions. Project Report. Danish Partnership for Sustainable Development in Music, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Musgrave, George; Gross, Sally-Anne and Carney, Daniel. 2023. When Music Speaks: Mental Health and Next Steps in the Danish Music Industry. Part 1 - Danish Music Creators' Subjective Wellbeing and Mental Health. Project Report. Danish Partnership for Sustainable Development in Music, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Leisewitz, Adrian; Musgrave, George and Franklin, Michael. 2022. SHAPESLewisham and the Shape of Lewisham: Connectivity, Communication and Construction in a Creative Enterprise Zone. Project Report. 缅北强奸幼女, London.
Gross, Sally-Anne; Musgrave, George and Janciute, Laima. 2018. Well-Being and Mental Health in the Gig Economy: Policy Perspectives on Precarity. Discussion Paper. University of Westminster Press - CAMRI Policy Briefs, London.