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A book on the therapeutic quality of music. Musicians, philosophers, music therapists, and others discuss their experiences
This interdisciplinary work is a tapestry of thought generated by music therapists, scholars, and performers in related fields such as anthropology, philosophy, music composition/performance, psychology, and musicology. It is woven together by the editor through a description of the process of interdisciplinary engagement, a personal description of her relationship with each author, and a final statement on the power of sound. The book is organized around the themes of listening, playing, and creating-essential processes in the work of music as therapy.
"I like the book's immense variety of well articulated statements with regard to musical experience—the opportunity to enter into intelligent, sensitive personal viewpoints that are rarely or never expressed. I enjoy the mixture of poetic, imaginative thinking with a more analytical treatment of the subject, and with thoughtful discussion based on extensive experience in music therapy. It is like being present in a stimulating, enjoyable convocation of friends and colleagues. It is fascinating, informative, provocative, poignant, and enriching." — Clive Robbins DMM, Co-Director, Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Clinic, New York University
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
I. THE BEGINNING
Introduction to Part One
II. LISTENING
1. The Silent Source
John Marcus
2. The Unbidden Song
Frances Smith Goldberg
3. Entering the World of Tones
David Marcus
4. The Power of Sound and Music in Therapy and Healing
Barbara Hesser
5. On Sound, Music, Listening, and Music Therapy
Dorit Amir
6. Unsound Medicine
Lisa Summer
7. The Power of Silence in Music Therapy
Gillian Stephens Langdon
8. Listening: A Sacred Act
Nancy McMaster
III. PLAYING
9. Floors of Music
Joanne Crandall
10. The Almost Unappreciated, Nearly Ignored Power of Sound—and Its Abuse
Christopher Tree
11. Sound Wave Mirror
Michael Fles
12. Improvisation as a Liminal Experience: Jazz and Music Therapy as Modern "Rites de Passage"
Even Ruud
13. Sound and Meaning
David Burrows
14. Close Encounters of the Musical Kind
Paul Lauzon
15. The Sound Image: Music Therapy in the Treatment of the Abused Child
Connie Isenberg-Grzeda
16. Singing Practices and States of Consciousness
Penelope Nichols-Rothe
IV. CREATING
17. Meetings with the Unsounded Voice
Peter O'Loughlin
18. Modes of Consciousness in Guided Imagery and Music (GIM): A Therapist's Experience of the Guiding Process
Kenneth E. Bruscia
19. Death and Rebirth Experiences in Music and Music Therapy
Benedikte Scheiby
20. Candomblé: Afro-Brazilian Ritual as Therapy
Joseph J. Moreno
21. An Aesthetic Foundation of Clinical Theory: An Underlying Basis of Creative Music Therapy
Kenneth Aigen
22. My Funeral Music
Jeremy J. Shapiro
23. The Listener: Dreaming the Soundscape with Howard Broomfield
Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington
24. The PowWow
Carolyn Bereznak Kenny
V. LISTENING, PLAYING, CREATING: THE POWER OF SOUND
Introduction to Part Five
List of Contributors
Index