Responsiveness In Music Therapy Improvisation A Perspective Inspired By Mikhail Bakhtin

through the adoption of mikhail bakhtin s terms this book presents a new creative theory called musical responsiveness the theory proposes that responsiveness in improvisation is an open ended continual process and that it involves not just creating meaningfulness and harmony but also engaging laughter struggle dispute and misunderstanding to become musically responsive is a process of becoming answerable to the client and in doing so the therapist undertakes ethical challenges and tensions although without immediate implications for what to do this book offers new insights and fresh perspectives on the use of improvisation in the practice of music therapy table of contents acknowledgments table of contents list of figures prelude introduction the book s scope personal and professional context chapter 1 re defining core concepts responsiveness music therapy health music therapy improvisation music therapist client meaning time aesthetics ethics in donald sch n s perspective theory chapter 2 action action and socialization to increase possibilities for action dag sterberg on the phenomenon of action the relationship between action and intention in music therapy improvisation playful action a short summing up on action chapter 3 introducing the music therapy narrative the observations chapter 4 the narrative of jakob and karla the guitar excerpt the djembe excerpt both excerpts chapter 5 summing up the narrative chapter 6 introducing mikhail bakhtin and his context about bakhtin chapter 7 concerning my transposing of insights of bakhtin s ideas my perspective chapter 8 mikhail bakhtin s terminology answerability dialogue other related concepts carnival a short summing up of bakhtin s ideas chapter 9 bakhtin s ideas on dialogue transposed to responsiveness in music therapy improvisation responsiveness in music therapy improvisation chapter 10 bakhtin s ideas on answerability transposed to responsiveness in music therapy improvisation responsiveness and answerability th