Music Therapy A Perspective From The Humanities

in this book even ruud argues for the value of humanities as a basis for the theory and practice of music therapy with the humanities he includes a broad range of academic disciplines such as those from the social sciences as well as from philosophy education and not least systematic musicology through ten chapters the author discusses some basic principles of a humanistic outlook and how these may affect music therapy he takes departure from the relational turn in psychotherapy and discusses concepts such as communicative musicality thirdness in improvisation and the concept of recognition as it relates to critical philosophy continuing the thread from his earlier book ruud goes on to discuss musical identity but this time from a developmental point of view i e how music serves different functions in the formation of our identities throughout life basic to the humanistic outlook on music therapy will be a concern for our conception of music and how we deal with aesthetic theories drawing from the recent philosophies of body and gesture ruud suggests a bodily foundation for the experience of meaning in music with implication for our understanding of therapeutic improvisation such as in creative music therapy or listening as exemplified by the bmgim approach the next chapters deal with clinical perspectives and theories from empowerment theory and notions on health and quality of life lead into a chapter on community music therapy a whole chapter is also devoted to philosophies of science in his concluding chapter ruud announces a new direction for music therapy how the everyday musicking through smart phones and mp3 technology may initiate a new area in the use of music as self caring technology isbn 13 978 1 891278 54 9 2010 209 pages hardback contents foreword chapter 1 the tradition from the humanities 1 a field of struggle a culture of questioning 4 roles and identities 5 cosmologies of music and healing 8 nonverbal meanings 9 history as legitimation 12 basic pr