scholarly journals Community music therapy projects between musicians living with severe disabilities and adolescent music students

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 152-153
Author(s):  
Luca Tiszai ◽  
Zsuzsanna Szűcs-Ittzés
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Community Music

scholarly journals Music Belongs to Everyone: Moments of Progress in Community Music Therapy with Musicians with Severe Disabilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Tiszai
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
International Research ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Zoltan Kodaly ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Political Background ◽  
Choir School

The article describes novel and successful projects involving musicians with severe disabilities and adolescent music students. The Nádizumzuzum Orchestra consists of adult members of a nursing home. They are able to play music with a newly developed method called Consonate. The young musicians are students of the Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choir School. This article presents the historical and socio-political background of the project to illustrate how music therapy grows from particular cultural and political circumstances of Hungary, and therefore takes a particular Hungarian form and flavour. The article also reflects on the wider context of the international research and practice of Community Music Therapy.

Community Music and Music Therapy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Wood ◽  
Gary Ansdell
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Community Music

This chapter outlines the historical and current relationship between community music and music therapy—in particular the seeming overlap between community music and the newer sub-discipline of music therapy called community music therapy. The chapter argues for a re-imagining of certain key areas of joint concern and potential linked to the broader shared agenda of working musically with people. These topics indicate a way for community music and music therapy to align and collaborate in a relationship that can be both ‘joint’ and ‘several’—ensuring that the work remains creative, effective, responsible, and professional for people and their communities.

scholarly journals The Use of Music Therapy Strategies to Enhance the General Milieu in a Rehabilitation Centre

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Xinxin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Interactive Music ◽  
Supportive Role ◽  
Therapy Strategies

<p>This research focused on how music therapy strategies could be used to improve the milieu in a rehabilitation centre in a New Zealand city. Residents in the rehabilitation centre had difficulty interacting with each other. I planned to use a Community Music Therapy approach to address residents' social needs. The research methodology was Action Research which involves the study of one's own practice. Cycles of learning led to the introduction of more 'open' groups and the use of the 'sharing concert' as a vehicle for promoting interaction between residents, staff, and family members, and staff and children at an early childhood centre. I examined the group dynamics, encouraged residents to move from small groups to bigger group or even open groups, and began to challenge them to take responsibility for individual tasks for their own and others' benefit. Through interactive music making, the residents improved understanding about conversation courtesy; their motivation for active participation increased as they developed a sense of togetherness, and appreciation for their community. They enjoyed interacting with the wider community also, and had the wish to 'branch out'. Further, the action research changed my understanding and leadership style: I learnt to gradually move from an aesthetic focus and into a supportive role as residents prepared for "their own concert".</p>

scholarly journals Working With and Within Chaos

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Brenda Oosthuizen
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
Group Music Therapy ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Valuable Complement ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
First Time

The Support Programme for Abuse Reactive Children, was initiated by the Teddy Bear Clinic (an NPO established to protect abused children) in South Africa in response to the increase of child-on-child offenders in this country.  This short-term programme aims to offer holistic rehabilitation to first time young sex offenders and incorporates conventional diversion approaches alongside creative programmes, including group music therapy. Based on a review of my session notes, this paper considers challenges and positive developments I experienced over time as the programme’s music therapist from 2006 to 2016. Although I often experienced this work as chaotic, findings suggest that through co-creating a context-specific music therapy programme alongside group members, clinic staff and the broader community, music therapy has offered an increasingly relevant and valuable complement to the diversion programme. Continuing challenges within this work are also highlighted.

scholarly journals Community-Based Referential Music Making with Limited-Resource Adolescents: A Pilot Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-118
Author(s):  
Natasha Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Limited Resource ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Community Group ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Referential Music

Abstract Black/African American adolescents from limited-resource communities face challenges and circumstances that are unique to their racialization and socioeconomic status; this merits community-engaged resources, such as community music therapy, that are equally unique in creating culturally responsive opportunities for limited-resource adolescents to engage socially with peers and experience meaningful success in a safe, supportive environment. The purpose of this study was to pilot and explore the feasibility of and behavioral processes in a community-based referential music-making intervention for limited-resource adolescents labeled as “at-risk.” The methods consisted of a concurrent nested (embedded) mixed methods design based on the principles of participatory actions research (PAR), during which qualitative data were collected during 8 focus group style music-making sessions. Quantitative data assessing self-efficacy were collected prior to first and following the 8th music-making session. The validity of quantitative results was challenged by the lowered reading level of participants and a high amount of mis-labeled (and thus unusable) data. Qualitative data suggest 3 themes, including creating community, artistic prioritization, and pride. All results were impacted by issues, such as inconsistent attendance and malfunctioning recording equipment. Nevertheless, participants expressed a collective desire to share their work with their community group. Discussion points are raised including how participants in this community music therapy-based approach were able to create and direct their own stories. The implementation of community music therapy approaches seems a valuable way to bring authentic representations of limited-resource adolescent participants into clinical practice.

Preventing music performance anxiety (MPA): Music students judge combined Depth Relaxation Music Therapy (DRMT) and silence to be an effective methodology

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Eric Pfeifer ◽  
Christine Stolterfoth ◽  
Claudia Spahn ◽  
Hans Ulrich Schmidt ◽  
Tonius Timmermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Anxiety ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Music Performance Anxiety ◽  
Subject Design ◽  
Alternative Condition

This article presents the results of a study which focused on the application of combined Hypnomusictherapy (HMT)/Depth Relaxation Music Therapy (DRMT) and silence in preventing music performance anxiety (MPA) in music students. Participants (n=12) were divided into two groups. Each group received either 16 minutes of HMT/DRMT followed by 6:30 minutes of silence or a 16-minute seminar consisting of a moderated group discussion on silence followed by 6:30 minutes of silence. Each of the two groups experienced the alternative condition (within-subject design) with one week in between. Focus groups were held for data gathering after each session. Qualitative content analysis according to Mayring [1,2] was applied to analyze the data. Silence following DRMT/HMT was perceived as more relaxing and longer lasting than silence following the seminar. Participants reported that their distracting or depressing thoughts decreased and their auditive perception of silence changed during the combined silence and DRMT/HMT. The results indicate that the procedure can help prevent MPA.

Part 1: Community Music Therapy and El Sistema: Addressing the Empowerment Needs of Individuals and Communities Facing Socioeconomic Marginalization

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Virginia Eulacio Cierniak
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Program Structure ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Music Program ◽  
El Sistema

Music is an accessible tool for positive change within people and societies, even in places facing socioeconomic marginalization due to poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to resources. Social capital has to do with the resources and networks available within society, which may help confront issues faced by individuals and communities. Community Music Therapy (CoMT) and the music education movement known as El Sistema both utilize music—understood as social capital—to address social justice. The purpose of this study was to comparatively examine the ways in which CoMT and El Sistema programs may address the empowerment needs of individuals and communities facing socioeconomic marginalization and suggest how these two approaches may be able to work synergistically to achieve their shared goals. Its findings reveal many parallels and divergence between El Sistema and CoMT in terms of the role of the music, program structure, social justice goals, outcomes, music education practice, areas of intersection, existing scholarly research, and criticisms each has received.

scholarly journals ‘Journey to musicking’: Resourcing people to music outside the therapy room

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Katie Boom
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Therapy Room ◽  
Neurological Conditions

<p>This action research study investigates resourcing people to engage in musicking outside the therapy room. Both the practice and research took place within a residential hospital for people with neurological conditions, situated in Aotearoa New Zealand. Music-centred music therapy, community music therapy, resource-oriented music therapy and the ecological model of music influenced this research. Following three action cycles, the qualitative data collected throughout was thematically analysed. This analysis revealed a framework referred to as the ‘journey to musicking’, which identifies six resources people needed to engage in music: opportunity; motivation; confidence; skills; practical needs; and a problem-solving toolkit. The role of the music therapist in resourcing people in these areas is framed as the role of a tuakana, drawing on an indigenous Māori model predominantly used in education and mentoring programmes: ‘tuakana-teina’. ‘Tuakana-teina’ in this study is defined as a music therapist-participant relationship that is empowering, collaborative and inclusive of the possibility of reciprocity. The personal resources (kete) needed by the tuakana music therapist are also explored, while empowerment and sustainability are highlighted as foundational principles to resourcing people. These principles, especially empowerment, are linked to the Māori concept of restoring rangatiratanga. This research provides a rich qualitative account of practicing music therapy in an empowering, ecological way in Aotearoa New Zealand.</p>

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