Sociocultural Identities in Music Therapy
- Author: Hadley, Susan (Ed.)
- ISBN: 9781945411694
- E-ISBN: 9781945411700
Sociocultural Identities in Music Therapy is a
collection of personal narratives by 18 music therapists who engage in a
critical culturally reflexive process and explore implications for their
therapeutic practice. Amongst the authors, there is gender diversity, diversity
of sexualities, racial diversity, ethnic diversity, neurodiversity,
geographical diversity, linguistic diversity, educational diversity, and more.
Each person’s intersectional identity positions them differently in terms of
their sociocultural location and thus each has differing experiences of
unearned advantages or disadvantages based purely on their membership in
various sociocultural groups in unique combinations. As such, each person
distinctively explores how they experience and are experienced in social
contexts. Woven together, this book is a rich tapestry of the sociocultural
identities of music therapists and implications for their therapeutic
relationships and processes. It provides a deep understanding and appreciation
of the concept of culture and its omnipresence in all we do and all we are. The
hope is that these narratives, and the included strategies for doing this kind
of critical culturally reflexive work, will guide music therapy students and
practitioners to examine their own sociocultural location and experiences, and
that it will open music therapists to consider their relational dynamics in all
aspects of their lives.
CONTENTS
Introduction, by Susan Hadley
Chapter 1 – Me: A Personal and Professional Necessity, by Marisol
Norris
Chapter 2 – transfronterizx, by ezequiel bautista
Chapter 3 – “What Are You?” Finding Connection as a Brown,
Male Music Therapist, by Akash Bhatia
Chapter 4 – A Skeptic in the Land of Music Therapy: Evaluating
Evidence at the Beginnings of Practice, by Petra Gelbart
Chapter 5 – Making a Detour: Paths for Diverse People to
Live in Diverse Ways, by Hiroko Miyake
Chapter 6 – The Long Journey Towards Self-Acceptance: Living
as a Queer Transgender Music Therapist, by Spencer Hardy
Chapter 7 – Caught Unaware: Honest Acknowledgments and Clinical
Applications in an Ongoing Process, by Kathryn Eberle Cotter
Chapter 8 – Comfortably “Unknowing”: Maintaining Equilibrium
as a Minority in a Minority Profession, by Natasha Thomas
Chapter 9 – Tabula Rasa = Tabú la Raza: My Not-So-Blank
Slate, by Sandra Ramos-Watt
Chapter 10 – Queering Karma and Cosmos: My Journey as an Indian
American Music Therapist in the United States, by Sangeeta Swamy
Chapter 11 – “The Highest Good Is Like Water” 上善若水:
The Music Runs Through It, by Joyu Lee
Chapter 12 – “El Closet es Para el Ropa…”: Music Therapist,
Coming “Aut,” by Jessica Leza
Chapter 13 – What Could I Do Better?: Failing Again and
Again, by Maevon Gumble
Chapter 14 – “On the Outside, Always Looking In”: A Queer
Black Man’s Search for Acceptance, by Freddy Perkins
Chapter 15 – Always Evolving: Finding Fluidity in Fixed
Narratives, by Kristen McSorley
Chapter 16 – Unfinished Story, by Ming Yuan Low
Chapter 17 – Themes and Variations, by Annette
Whitehead-Pleaux
Chapter 18 – Intersections and Intersectionality: Under
Construction, by Douglas R. Keith
Afterword: Reflections and Strategies, by Susan Hadley