Music Therapy: Improvisation, Communication, and Culture

Author: Ruud, Even
ISBN: 9781891278044
E-ISBN: 9781891278846

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An evocative series of essays designed to expand existing concepts of music therapy theory, practice and research. The author provides an in-depth examination of fundamental questions for our profession: What is health? Is music therapy a health profession or cultural movement? What concepts of music and man are indigenous to music therapy? How is music improvisation communicative? What is our science for the interpretation of musical meaning? What is the relation between music and emotions? How does music contribute to our individual and collective identity? The author brings his extensive experience in musicology, philosophy and music therapy in formulating answers that will define our future. (1998; Paperback, 204 pages).

Table of Contents
Chapter1: Pathways to Music Therapy The Politics of Music Therapy Professional Influences Theoretical Influences Toward a New Paradigm in Music Therapy?	1
Chapter 2: The Individual as Improviser:The Concept of the Individual In Music Therapy The Individual as an Organism The Individual as a Person The Individual as a Social Being An Ecological Approach The Individual as Improviser	19
Chapter 3: Music and Identity The Concepts of Identity Identity, Emotion, and Body Awareness: Personal Space Music and Social Space The Space of Time and Place Transpersonal Space Improvisation: A Metaphor for Identity	31
Chapter 4: Music, Health, and Quality of Life Two Historical Trends Concepts of Health and Quality of Life Health, Culture, and Lifestyle Health, Culture, and Lifestyle Health Resources, Identity, and Quality of Life Vitality, or Awareness of Feelings Agency Belonging Meaning and Coherence Health, Music, and Identity	49
Chapter 5: The Concept of Music in Improvisational Music Therapy The Meaning of Music in Music Therapy Against Essentialism? Code Competency and the Discourse On Music Music Therapy as a Social Field	69
Chapter 6: Popular Music and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life The Headphone Generation Music as a map of Reality Everyday Aesthetics as Necessary Symbolic Work Music as a Soundtrack for Life Music as an Organizer of Social Life	85
Chapter 7: Improvisation, Interpretation, and Qualitative Research The Need for Interpretation Reflexivity, or Science as a Metacritique Qualitative Methods Competing Claims of Knowledge Science As Narrative	101
Chapter 8: Improvisation as a Liminal Experience Improvisation as Play Rites of Passage Liminality Transformation	117
Chapter 9: Improvisation as Social Interaction, Or Getting into the Groove of Music Therapy Case Study Discussion Musical Dialogue: An Exercise in Communication The Dialogical Mind Punctuation Getting into the Groove	141
Chapter 10: Improvisation as Play and Fantasy 168 Phenomenology and Analysis in Music Therapy Describing the Improvisation: Some Methodological Aspects The Bear and the Bird Metaphor and Representation	168
References	181
Index	197