Elaborations Toward a Notion of Community Music Therapy
- Author: Stige, Brynjulf
- E-ISBN: 9781937440121
This book is an edited version of Brynjulf Stige’s doctoral dissertation from 2003 with a new foreword added in 2011.
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 book, which uses reflective elaboration of practical examples and theoretical (re)sources – including insights from Culture-Centered Music Therapy (Stige, 2002) – in the pursuit of a notion of Community Music Therapy. After the introduction of topic (Chapter 1) and meta-methodological considerations (Chapter 2), a broad range of literature resources 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 (Chapters 3 to 5). The case examples presented in Chapters 6 and 7 are analyzed from several interlocking perspectives, each time adding up to a further step in the overall theoretical project of the study. 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 synthesize the various perspectives and material taken in pursuit of provisional answers to the four research questions.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Introduction. 1
Chapter 1: Focus and Purpose of Research. 3
Personal Context 4
Professional Context 9
Focus and Purpose of Research. 14
Preunderstanding of the Notion. 16
Music Therapy, Culture, and Community. 18
Conclusion and Outline of the Dissertation. 21
Notes: Chapter 1. 24
Chapter 2: Metamethodological Considerations. 27
Metamethodology. 28
Culture, Society, and Modernity. 30
A Culture-Centered Perspective. 34
Abductive Reasoning as a Strategy of Discovery. 35
Social Research and Hermeneutics. 40
The Legacy of Critical Theory. 43
Critical Theory in Late Modernity. 45
The Problem of Representation. 47
Writing as Dialogic Aspect-Seeing. 49
Proposed Criteria for Evaluation of this Study. 50
Conclusion and Implications for the Inquiry. 54
Notes: Chapter 2. 57
Part II: Roots and Routes. 63
Chapter 3: Music Therapy, Community, and Society, a Literature Review.. 65
Selection of Literature. 66
German Literature. 68
Norwegian Literature. 78
British Literature. 88
North American Literature. 101
Pleasure and Performance, Solidarity and Struggle. 116
Conclusion: An Emerging Practice and Discourse. 119
Notes: Chapter 3. 121
Chapter 4: Musicking, Human Nature, and Music Culture. 126
Music in Modern Music Therapy. 127
Nature and Nurture. 132
Toward an Integrative Concept of Humankind?. 135
The Evolution of the Human Species (Phylogeny) 137
Human Cultural History. 140
Human Individual Development (Ontogeny) 144
Humankind and Music. 147
Protomusicality and Phylogeny. 148
Musics in Cultural History. 154
Ontogeny, Cultivated Capacities, and Perceived Affordances. 158
Music as Performance of Relationships. 160
Musicking, Nature, and Culture. 164
Conclusion: Toward an Inclusive Notion of Music. 170
Notes: Chapter 4. 174
Chapter 5: Culture, Community, Health, and Music Therapy in Late Modernity. 179
Modernity and Music Therapy. 180
Ideas of Culture. 183
“Culture†Defined for Music Therapy. 186
Community in Context 189
“Community†Defined for Music Therapy. 193
Health as Qualification for Participation. 196
Health and Music Therapy in Late Modernity. 198
Implications for the Concept of Music Therapy. 202
Conceptual Levels in Defining Music Therapy. 207
The Field of Music and Health. 210
Music Therapy as Discipline. 213
Music Therapy as Profession. 217
Music Therapy as Professional Practice. 221
Areas and Arenas of Music Therapy Practice. 224
Conclusion: A Modernization of Modern Music Therapy?. 227
Notes: Chapter 5. 229
Part III: Fieldwork. 235
Chapter 6: The Ecology of Community Relationships: Reflections on a Case Report 237
Context 238
The Initial Dilemma. 239
Cycles of Reflection-Action: Some Notes on Method. 241
The Applied Model of the Reflection-Action Process. 243
Problems of Participation. 248
Interaction Through Improvisation. 250
With Longing, Life, and Song! 251
Go Down, Moses. 255
First Afterthought: Levels of Analysis. 256
Second Afterthought: Modern Challenges to Social Networks. 257
Third Afterthought: An Ecological Perspective. 261
Fourth Afterthought: Music Therapy as Aesthetic Practice. 265
Fifth Afterthought: Working with Local Links. 271
Conclusion: Music Therapy as Giving Voice. 274
Notes: Chapter 6. 278
Chapter 7: Hypertextuality in Music Therapy: An Instrumental Case Study. 283
Context 284
An Ethnographic Perspective. 286
Methodological Implications. 290
Participant Observation. 292
Semistructured Qualitative Interviews. 295
Synopsis of Ramona’s Music Therapy Process. 303
Ramona’s First Description of the Music Therapy Process. 311
Hypertextuality as a Metametaphor 314
Ramona Looking Back on her Music Therapy Process. 321
Private and Public Aspects of Music Therapy. 326
Conclusion: The Doors and Windows of the Dressing Room.. 331
Notes: Chapter 7. 335
Chapter 8: A Context-Inclusive Model of Music Therapy Processes. 343
Music Therapy Processes. 344
Context-Inclusive Processes. 345
Health Affordances. 348
An Overview of the Context-Inclusive Model 355
Time Dimensions of Music Therapy Processes. 359
Roles and Relationships. 361
Rituals and Rationales. 364
Communitas in Context 367
Reflexivity in Action. 372
Conclusion: Evolving Affordances. 375
Notes: Chapter 8. 381
Part IV: Toward a Notion of Community Music Therapy. 384
Chapter 9: Community Music Therapy, an Outline. 386
Revisiting the Research Focus. 387
Cultural and Interdisciplinary Context 388
Roots of Community Music Therapy, a Review.. 395
Theoretical Routes. 403
Principles of Practice. 410
Values in Action. 420
Implications for the Discipline. 423
Implications for the Profession. 427
Limitations and Dilemmas. 436
Conclusion: Redescribing Community Music Therapy. 439
Notes: Chapter 9. 445
Chapter 10: Conclusions, Critique, and Future Directions. 449
Conclusion of the Dissertation. 450
Reviewing the Research Process. 453
Critique of the Study. 455
Suggestions for Future Research. 458
Epilogue. 460
Notes: Chapter 10. 461
References. 462
Notes on References. 485
Index. 486