music therapy

Is music therapy woo? I've looked around a bit, it certainly smells like woo, and most of the "studies" I see on it don't amount to proving much more then "music sounds nice" or non-confirming results that they simply decided to reject and pretend like they got a success.

In an article of the guardian, Marc Abrahams (editor of the bimonthly Annals of Improbable Research and organiser of the Ig Nobel Prize) writes about the study of Frederick R. Carrick on the effect of the music of his favourite singer Nolwenn Leroy on human beings. He called these effects "the...