The 1982 Symposium On Music In Life Of Man Beginnings Therapy Theory

a long awaited historical retrospective on the influential 1982 new york university music in the life of man this volume contains excerpts from the original unpublished papers photographs of symposium participants interviews with participants about their memories of the gathering and analysis of the continuing significance of the symposium dialogues some 35 years after the event a thorough description of the structure and processes of the symposium offer a model of how to organize a music therapy gathering with depth and relevance from the perspective of past present and future intensive collaboration is the theme this book helps to identify the roots of music therapy dialogues internationally the work is dedicated to those important music therapy pioneers who attended the symposium and have since passed away table of contents acknowledgments preface chapter 1 the significance of the gathering chapter 2 the participants and their papers chapter 3 organization of the symposium chapter 4 the conversations chapter 5 looking back participants and students remember and reflect chapter 6 reflections on the legacy of the symposium reference list