Community Music Therapy [Paperback]

Gary Ansdell (Editor), Mercédès Pavlicevic (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1843101246 | ISBN-13: 978-1843101246 | Publication Date: November 19, 2008 | Edition: 1

Music therapists from around the world working in conventional and unconventional settings have offered their contributions to this exciting new book, presenting spirited discussion and practical examples of the ways music therapy can reflect and encourage social change. From working with traumatized refugees in Berlin, care-workers and HIV/AIDS orphans in South Africa, to adults with neurological disabilities in south-east England and children in paediatric hospitals in Norway, the contributors present their global perspectives on finding new ways forward in music therapy. Reflecting on traditional approaches in addition to these newer practices, the writers offer fresh perceptions on their identity and role as music therapists, their assumptions and attitudes about how music, people and context interact, the sites and boundaries to their work, and the new possibilities for music therapy in the 21st century. As the first book on the emerging area of Community Music Therapy, this book should be an essential and exciting read for music therapists, specialists and community musicians.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'This is a book which challenges traditional boundaries and definitions of music therapy. It takes seriously how culture informs our ways of perceiving therapeutic needs, and seeks to develop new perspectives, role identities and ways of doing music therapy. It is essential reading for the socially engaged music therapist.' - from the Foreword by Even Ruud

About the Author

Mercedes Pavlicevic lives and works in South Africa, and is Director at the Music Therapy Programme at the University of Pretoria, and Researcher Associate at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London where she teaches the Master of Music Therapy Programme, and she has been involved in Community Music Therapy projects for the past six years. Gary Ansdell read music at Cambridge and trained as a music therapist at the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre where he is now Head of Research, and at the Institute for Musiktherapie, Herdecke, Germany. He is the Editor of the British Journal of Music Therapy, an Honorary Research Fellow in Community Music Therapy at the University of Sheffield and former Research Fellow at City University, London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley; 1 edition (November 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843101246
• ISBN-13: 978-1843101246
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #321,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)