Invitation to Community Music Therapy

2011-08-18 Music

Author : Brynjulf Stige
Release : 2011-08-18
Genre : Music
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Download or read book Invitation to Community Music Therapy written by Brynjulf Stige. This book was released on 2011-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invitation to Community Music Therapy presents the main perspectives and principles of community music therapy as it is practiced around the world. A relatively recent development within the broader field of music therapy, community music therapy emphasizes human connectedness, health promotion, and social change. This textbook surveys the history, theory, and current practice of community music therapy to develop a comprehensive picture of the field. Along the way it takes full measure of the diverse and vibrant ways community music therapy is practiced around the globe. Including dozens of photographs and pedagogical tools such as chapter questions, textboxes, figures, key terms, and discussion topics, Invitation to Community Music Therapy is the ideal introduction to a growing area of music therapy.

Invitation to Community Music Therapy

2011-08-18 Art

Author : Brynjulf Stige
Release : 2011-08-18
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Invitation to Community Music Therapy written by Brynjulf Stige. This book was released on 2011-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the main perspectives and principles of community music therapy as it is practiced around the world.

Where Music Helps: Community Music Therapy in Action and Reflection

2017-07-05 Music

Author : Brynjulf Stige
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Music
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Download or read book Where Music Helps: Community Music Therapy in Action and Reflection written by Brynjulf Stige. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how people may use music in ways that are helpful for them, especially in relation to a sense of wellbeing, belonging and participation. The central premise for the study is that help is not a decontextualized effect that music produces. The book contributes to the current discourse on music, culture and society and it is developed in dialogue with related areas of study, such as music sociology, ethnomusicology, community psychology and health promotion. Where Music Helps describes the emerging movement that has been labelled Community Music Therapy, and it presents ethnographically informed case studies of eight music projects (localized in England, Israel, Norway, and South Africa). The various chapters of the book portray "music's help" in action within a broad range of contexts; with individuals, groups and communities - all of whom have been challenged by illness or disability, social and cultural disadvantage or injustice. Music and musicing has helped these people find their voice (literally and metaphorically); to be welcomed and to welcome, to be accepted and to accept, to be together in different and better ways, to project alternative messages about themselves or their community and to connect with others beyond their immediate environment. The overriding theme that is explored is how music comes to afford things in concert with its environments, which may suggest a way of accounting for the role of music in music therapy without reducing music to a secondary role in relation to the "therapeutic," that is, being "just" a symbol of psychological states, a stimulus, or a text reflecting socio-cultural content.

Elaborations Toward a Notion of Community Music Therapy

2003-01-01 Music

Author : Brynjulf Stige
Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Music
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Download or read book Elaborations Toward a Notion of Community Music Therapy written by Brynjulf Stige. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last few years the term Community Music Therapy increasingly has come into circulation, and with it, fresh debates about the relevance and meaning of the term and of the practices it refers to. How could Community Music Therapy be described and defined? What characteristics of human nature and late modern culture indicate the relevance of Community Music Therapy? What preliminary descriptors could be developed for Community Music Therapy practice? What are the implications for the discipline and profession of music therapy? These are the questions addressed in this study, which is characterised as a qualitative inquiry with a strong theoretical component. Available literature resources in four countries -- Germany, Norway, Britain, and the US -- are examined as a foundation for the elaboration of a metatheoretical platform from which the history, importance, and significance of Community Music Therapy can be accounted for. The casework presented and analysed in Chapters 6 and 7 is chosen as part of the ongoing narrative and accompanied by extensive commentary on methodological implications. Analysis is given to the empirical material from several interlocking perspectives, each time adding up to a further step in the overall theoretical project of the dissertation. A context-inclusive Model of Music Therapy Processes, which challenges conventional music therapy theories and practices, is developed in Chapter 8, before the final Chapters 9 and 10 synthesise the various perspectives and material taken in pursuit of provisional answers to the four research questions.

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