Culture-Centered Music Therapy
- Author: Stige, Brynjulf
- ISBN: 9781891278143
- E-ISBN: 9781891278839
Humans cannot escape culture. Culture provides the tools humans need to deal with the challenges of everyday life and with the symbolic artifacts they depend upon to communicate and construct their life histories. Culture thus permeates the personalities of therapists and clients, a fact that hardly has been given the attention it deserves in music therapy theory. Culture-Centered Music Therapy explores the implications of taking culture-inclusive perspectives for practice, theory, and research.
Part One outlines premises for the argument, examining basic concepts such as culture, humankind, meaning, “musicking,” and the nature-nurture debate.
Part Two highlights how culture-centered music therapy may be practiced. The scope varies from community music therapy (aimed in part on cultural change in the community), to ecological music therapy (focusing on communication at micro- and mesosystem levels), to individual music psychotherapy (considering the individual in cultural context).
In Part Three, implications for describing and understanding music therapy are discussed, including a chapter on how to define music therapy as practice, discipline, and profession. A culture-inclusive model of the music therapy process is also proposed.
Part Four suggests approaches to music therapy research within a culture-centered context. A call for increased reflexivity, the ability to reflect upon one’s social and cultural position, is at the heart of the discussion, along with a continuing theme of this book: the relations and tensions between local and more general perspectives on music therapy. (2002, ISBN 1-891278-14-2;$28).
Brynjulf Stige is the first Coordinator of the music therapy education program at Sogn og Fjordane University in Sandane, Norway, where he is an associate professor. With diverse experiences as a music therapist using a community based approach, Stige has written numerous articles and books on music therapy and music education. He is editor-in-chief of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and co-editor (with Carolyn Kenny) of Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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| Brief Contents Preface Foreword, by Kenneth E. Bruscia | |
| Introduction | |
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Part I: Premises |
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| Chapter 1: Why Culture? | |
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A Very Brief History of the Concept of Culture Toward an Integrated Conception of Humankind? Culture and the Evolution of the Human Species (Phylogeny) Cultural History The Relevance of Cultural Psychology for Music Therapy Culture Defined for Music Therapy Culture-Centered Music Therapy Notes |
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Chapter 2: Meanings |
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Meaning of Meaning in Music therapy From Names to Moves in Language Games Meaning Games The Narrative Turn The Aesthetic Dimension Art and Values Schizophonia and the Therapy Music Market These People Just Cannot Sing Together A Plurality of Polyphonic Practices Notes |
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| Chapter 3: The Power of Musicking | |
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Talking about Music Defining Music The Origins of Music Protomusicality Music and Culture Plurality of Musics To Music The Power of Musicking Notes |
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Part II: Practices |
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| Chapter 4: Community Music Therapy as Cultural Engagement | |
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Music Therapy as Cultural Engagement Music Therapy, Health Promotion, and Cultural Life A Note on Theory, Goals and Method -May We Too Play in the Brass Band? With Longing, Life, and Song! Go Down, Moses Some Consequences for Research and Ethics Postscript: From Micro to Macro Notes |
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| Chapter 5: Ecological Music Therapy and Mediated Learning | |
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Introduction I dont Like Music A Transactional and Ecological Perspective Learning as Social Interaction Music and Meaning as Social Interaction The Story of Paul: The Assessment Process Intervention through Consultation Video Evaluation as Part of the Consultation Process A Broader Concept of Music Therapy? Postscript: The Concept of Ecology Notes |
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| Chapter 6: Hypertextuality in Individual Music Psychotherapy | |
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Introduction The Text Analogy in Music Therapy Texts and Hypertexts Hypertextuality in Music Synopsis of a Year in Music Therapy Talking about Music Therapy Hypertextuality as a Meta-Metaphor A Preceding Analogous Case? Postscript: Hypertext Narratives Notes |
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Part III: Implications |
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| Chapter 7: Redefining Music Therapy | |
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But Is It Music Therapy? Music and Health Conceptual Levels in Defining Music Therapy Folk Music Therapy Music Therapy as Discipline and Profession Music Therapy as Professional Practice The Practice of Redefining Music Therapy Notes |
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| Chapter 8: A Model of the Music Therapy Process | |
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Situated Practice Shared Components in Music Therapy Practices Health Musicking Client and Therapist Learning in Relationship Roles and Relationships Rituals and Rationales Communitas in Context Reflexivity in Action Notes |
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| Chapter 9: New Arenas and Agendas | |
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Areas and Eras of Music Therapy Target and Time of Intervention Local Links Shared Agenda? Metaphors to Work By Postcolonial Beginnings Ethics of Culturally Informed Empathy Notes |
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Part IV: Investigations |
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| Chapter 10: Ethnographically Informed Clinical Research | |
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Clinical Research Ethnography Ethnographic Research Techniques The Researcher in the Field Thick Description The Representation Crisis Writing as Dialogic Aspect Seeing Interacting Voices Notes |
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| Chapter 11: Participatory Action Research | |
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Research and Social Change Pioneers of Action Research The Legacy of Critical Theory Contemporary Trends in Action Research Music Therapy: A Case of Fiddling while the World Burns? The Process of Doing Participatory Action Research The Problem of Participation Notes |
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| Chapter 12: Toward a Third Culture of Music Therapy Research? | |
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The Two Cultures Science and Success The Hermeneutic Challenge Peaceful Coexistence? Research and Reflexivity A Third Culture? Notes |
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| Epilogue | |
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Drapetomania and other Peculiarities Cultural Sensitivity Notes |
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| Glossary References Author Index | |