Responsiveness in Music Therapy Improvisation: A Perspective Inspired by Mikhail Bakhtin
- Author: Stensaeth, Karette
- ISBN: 9781945411236
- E-ISBN: 9781945411243
Through the adoption of Mikhail Bakhtin's terms, this book presents a new creative theory called Musical Responsiveness. The theory proposes that responsiveness in improvisation is an open-ended, continual process, and that it involves not just creating meaningfulness and harmony, but also engaging laughter, struggle, dispute, and misunderstanding. To become musically responsive is a process of becoming answerable to the client; and in doing so, the therapist undertakes ethical challenges and tensions. Although without immediate implications for what to do, this book offers new insights and fresh perspectives on the use of improvisation in the practice of music therapy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Prelude
INTRODUCTION
The Book’s Scope
Personal and Professional Context
CHAPTER 1: (RE) DEFINING CORE CONCEPTS
Responsiveness
Music Therapy
Health
Music Therapy Improvisation
Music Therapist
Client
Meaning
Time
Aesthetics
Ethics in Donald Schön’s Perspective
Theory
CHAPTER 2: ACTION
Action and Socialization
“To Increase Possibilities for Action”
Dag Østerberg on the Phenomenon of Action
The Relationship between Action and Intention in Music Therapy Improvisation
Playful Action
A Short Summing up on Action
CHAPTER 3: INTRODUCING THE MUSIC THERAPY NARRATIVE
The Observations
CHAPTER 4: THE NARRATIVE OF JAKOB AND KARLA
The Guitar Excerpt
The Djembe Excerpt
Both Excerpts
CHAPTER 5: SUMMING UP THE NARRATIVE
CHAPTER 6: INTRODUCING MIKHAIL BAKHTIN AND HIS CONTEXT
About Bakhtin
CHAPTER 7: CONCERNING MY TRANSPOSING OF INSIGHTS OF BAKHTIN’S IDEAS
My Perspective
CHAPTER 8: MIKHAIL BAKHTIN’S TERMINOLOGY
Answerability
Dialogue
Other Related Concepts
Carnival
A Short Summing Up of Bakhtin’s Ideas
CHAPTER 9: BAKHTIN’S IDEAS ON DIALOGUE, TRANSPOSED TO RESPONSIVENESS IN MUSIC THERAPY IMPROVISATION
Responsiveness in Music Therapy Improvisation
CHAPTER 10: BAKHTIN’S IDEAS ON ANSWERABILITY, TRANSPOSED TO RESPONSIVENESS IN MUSIC THERAPY IMPROVISATION
Responsiveness and Answerability
The Music Therapist’s Responsibility
CHAPTER 11: “WE:” A COMMUNITY OF MUSIC THERAPY IMPROVISATION
A Community of Music Therapy Improvisation
Chapter 12: BAKHTIN’S IDEAS ON CARNIVAL, TRANSPOSED TO RESPONSIVENESS IN MUSIC THERAPY IMPROVISATION
Carnival and Improvisation
Kjetil Steinsholt’s Carnival: Carnival as Play
Summarizing the Main Aspects of “My” Carnival
Is the Music Therapist a Jester?
CHAPTER 13: MERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CARNIVAL, PLAYFULNESS, AND ACTION
Conditions for Responsiveness
Materializing Time Aspects in the Improvisation Between Jakob and Karla
Action Versus Interaction
Maintaining a Dialogical Mind-set in the Carnival
Summing Up
CHAPTER 14: “MUSICAL ANSWERABILITY:” A THEORY ON RESPONSIVENESS
IN MUSIC THERAPY IMPROVISATION INSPIRED BY BAKHTIN
Introducing My Theory
Placing Musical Answerability within Three Perspectives
Summarizing the Main Characteristics of the Theory
CHAPTER 15: DISCUSSING THEORY ASPECTS
Musical Answerability as an Interlevel Theory
Is the Theory Music-Centered?
Returning to the Question of Authorship
CHAPTER 16: A RETURN TO THE QUESTION, WHAT IS MUSIC THERAPY?
Framing the Question
Responsiveness and Musically Answerable Acts
Postlude
No Last Words
References
Attachments
Endnotes
Index