scholarly journals Rethinking Music Therapy From the Perspective of Bio-politics

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroko Miyake
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Therapy Process ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
Social Conformity ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Cultural Inclusion ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Political Implications

In this article, I intend to reconsider music therapy process from the perspectives of bio-power and bio-politics by Foucault (1977, 1990), Agamben (1998, 1999) and Hardt & Negri (2000, 2004). My interest is in the political implications of music therapy. I examine discussions of music therapists on the first session of Edward that appeared in the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy (2003). In this article, a predilection to culturally acceptable musical expression is suggested. This musical integration might increase "possibilities of action" or might be a process of civilization (social conformity). When I position these arguments beside bio-politics, the discourses are exclusively discussed from the side of bios, or civilization. Little concern seems to be rendered from the perspective of zoe. Can the cultural inclusion through music therapy really help clients construct identities? To go beyond this, I introduce Hardt and Negris' concept of multitude. This concept seems to resonate with many recent music therapists' intentions. The new ways of music making and therapy that can respect the singularity of musical expressions. I suggest that common ideas might be more acceptable within this conceptual framework.

Challenging the Profession

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Barrington
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Clinical Issues ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Uk

This article explores some of the issues raised in recent literature about the manner in which music therapy has been developing. It focuses on the professional rather than the clinical issues that surround its development and explores concerns about and criticisms of the manner in which the profession in the UK has sought to develop. Thus it focuses on the political implications of the professionalisation of music therapy in the UK. Many of the issues have arisen as a result of the evolution of Community Music Therapy, challenging music therapists regardless of the clinical approaches employed. This article considers whether the profession's self-promotional activities are compatible with a client-centred1 approach, concluding that this is indeed the case.

scholarly journals Community Building Through Inclusive Music-Making

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Gosine ◽  
Deborah Hawksley ◽  
Susan LeMessurier Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Therapy Sessions ◽  
Musical Preferences

The objective of this project was to expand the boundaries of regular music therapy sessions at a non-profit organization to include performances and workshops with community musicians. The goals and practices used for persons with physical disabilities prepared participants to benefit from inclusive music-making with local community musicians who had no previous music therapy experience, but whose performing styles were closely aligned with the musical preferences of our participants. The four collaborative workshops, which were held over six months, involved music therapy participants, accredited music therapists, local musicians, and volunteers engaging in music making together where teaching and learning was shared amongst all involved. The workshops were also an important mechanism for raising greater awareness of the needs and abilities of the music therapy participants.

Bulk Exports, Trade Tiers, Regulation, and Development: An Economic Approach to the Study of West Africa's “Legitimate Trade”

1979 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Chamberlin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Historical Origins ◽  
Economic Character

During the nineteenth century the export of bulk commodities from West Africa expanded at the expense of slave exports. Research has focused on the political implications of the expansion of so-called “legitimate trade” rather than on its economic character. In the interests of an economic approach, new terminology and a conceptual framework are proposed, and then applied to a historical problem—the levels of competition prevailing in the African trader networks serving the coastal ports. The conclusions of this study are related to the issue of the historical origins of African underdevelopment.

scholarly journals The Leader of the Band: A Case Story of Community Music Therapy on a Hospital Ward for People Who Have Dementia

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice Dennis ◽  
Daphne Joan Rickson
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Therapy Process ◽  
Residential Care Facility ◽  
Music Making ◽  
People With Dementia

This case story was undertaken as part of a research project[1] investigating music therapy to aid relationships between people with dementia and their family members. Involving family members in the music therapy process was found to be valuable in fostering a sense of community between residents, family members, and care staff (Dennis, 2012). However, a sense of community was also fostered by the interactions of the residents themselves as they participated in music therapy over a ten month period. Music making became a natural part of the environment, an important medium for individual expression, shared communication, enhancing social events, and demonstrating mutual care and love. We demonstrate this through our case story of Jack[2] whose music making permeated the dementia ward to invite the active participation of others, and led to the development of caring relationships. [1] The qualitative study used secondary analysis of clinical data (also known as clinical data mining) to explore and describe a student music therapist’s experience of involving family members of people with dementia in a music therapy process at a residential care facility. The study has the approval of the Massey University Human Ethics Committee (HEC: Southern A – 11/41). [2] Not his real name. 

Music, Music Therapy, Disability Studies, Bioethics, and Health Humanities

2019 ◽  
pp. 338-352
Author(s):  
Alex Lubet
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health Humanities ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Beneficial Impact

This essay describes two disability-related courses—Disability Ethics and Music, Disability, and Society—which have become de facto requirements (one or both courses) for graduate students in music therapy. Music therapists comprise much of the majority of students in these courses who come from healthcare fields. This essay contemplates, in Disability Ethics, the roles of music/musicians/music therapists in bioethics and the role of bioethics in music therapy. In Music, Disability, and Society, students learn that music-making—presumably a talent or hyperability—offers a uniquely valuable perspective on disability. Disability Ethics proposes that mainstream bioethics takes too narrow a view of its potential reach. It marginalizes those professionals beyond doctors, nurses, policymakers, and administrators, such as health workers and other practitioners in mind–body praxis—including, for example, music teachers—who might benefit from its teachings, methods, and research and who at the same time themselves might have a beneficial impact on those teachings and methods. Music, Disability, and Society proposes that, through contemplating the place of talent in culture, the socially constructed aspects of disability are illuminated.

scholarly journals Music Therapy and Autism: A View from Disability Studies

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Straus
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Medical Conditions ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability ◽  
Musical Interests

Music therapy has positioned itself squarely within the medical model of disability, arguing that many sorts of human variability should be understood as illnesses, diseases, or other sorts of pathological medical conditions, and offering music as a source of normalization, remediation, and therapy toward a possible cure.  But for many human conditions, including autism, cure is neither possible nor desirable.  Instead of seeking to normalize autistic people, music therapy might instead acknowledge their distinctive sorts of musical interests and attitudes and offer to enhance their indigenous culture in an atmosphere of mutual respect.  Instead of normalization and cure, music therapists might seek enhanced self-expression, knowledge, and pleasure through mutual music-making.

PENSAMENTO POLÍTICO EM GIORGIO AGAMBEN

Professare ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Claudemir Aparecido Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Political Freedom ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Control ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social

<p class="resumoabstract">O professor Giorgio Agamben tem elaborado críticas à engenhosa estrutura política ocidental moderna. Avalia os mecanismos de controle estatal, nos quais os denomina ‘dispositivos’, cuja força está na imbricação às normas jurídico-teológicas com seus similares ritos e liturgias. Suas ocorrências e legitimidade preponderam no tecido social cuja organização sistêmica se põe quase como elemento natural e não cultural. O texto tem por objetivo explorar a concepção política de Agamben sobre a política contemporânea, especialmente considerando seu livro: ‘Estado de Exceção’, cuja investigação apresenta a possibilidade de atenuação dos direitos de cidadania e o enfraquecimento da prática da liberdade política e o processo de relação dos indivíduos no meio social através da redução das subjetividades ‘autênticas’. Analisamos ainda a transferência do mundo sacro elaborado pelos teólogos católicos presente na modernidade à política cuja democracia moderna faz do homem (sujeito) tornar-se objeto do poder político. Faz também, reflexão dos conceitos de subjetivação e dessubjetivação relacionando-os às implicações políticas do homem moderno. A pesquisa é bibliográfica com ênfase na análise dos conceitos elaborados por Agamben, especialmente quanto ao ‘dispositivo’. Conclui que o indivíduo ocidental, de modo geral, sofre o processo de dessubjetivação e está ‘nu’, indefeso e alienado politicamente. Ele precisa voltar-se ao processo de ‘profanação’ dos dispositivos para libertar-se das vinculações orientadoras que forçosamente o descaracteriza enquanto ser ativo e livre.</p><p class="resumoabstract"><strong>Palavras-chave</strong>: Política. Liberdade. Subjetivação.</p><h3>ABSTRACT</h3><p class="resumoabstract">Professor Giorgio Agamben has been criticizing the ingenious modern Western political structure. It evaluates the mechanisms of state control, in which it calls them 'devices', whose strength lies in the overlap with legal-theological norms with their similar rites and liturgies. Its occurrences and legitimacy preponderate in the social fabric whose systemic organization is almost as a natural and not a cultural element. The text aims to explore Agamben's political conception of contemporary politics, especially considering his book 'State of Exception', whose research presents the possibility of attenuating citizenship rights and weakening the practice of political freedom and the individuals in the social environment through the reduction of 'authentic' subjectivities. We also analyze the transfer of the sacred world elaborated by the Catholic theologians present in the modernity to the politics whose modern democracy makes of the man - subject - to become object of the political power. It also reflects on the concepts of subjectivation and desubjectivation, relating them to the political implications of modern man. The research is bibliographical with emphasis in the analysis of the concepts elaborated by Agamben, especially with regard to the 'device'. He concludes that the Western individual, in general, suffers the process of desubjectivation and is 'naked', defenseless and politically alienated. He must turn to the process of 'desecration' of devices to free himself from the guiding bindings that forcibly demeanes him while being active and free.</p><p class="resumoabstract"><strong>Keywords</strong>: Politics. Freedom. Subjectivity. </p><p> </p>

China's Western Horizon

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Markey
Keyword(s):  
Political Influence ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
National Wealth ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Infrastructure Investments

This book explains how China’s new foreign policies like the vaunted “Belt and Road” Initiative are being shaped by local and regional politics outside China and assesses the political implications of these developments for Eurasia and the United States. It depicts the ways that President Xi Jinping’s China is zealously transforming its national wealth and economic power into tools of global political influence and details these developments in South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Drawing from extensive interviews, travels, and historical research, it describes how perceptions of China vary widely within states like Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Iran. Eurasia’s powerful and privileged groups often expect to profit from their connections to China, while others fear commercial and political losses. Similarly, statesmen across Eurasia are scrambling to harness China’s energy purchases, arms sales, and infrastructure investments as a means to outdo their strategic competitors, like India and Saudi Arabia, while negotiating relations with Russia and America. The book finds that, on balance, China’s deepening involvement will play to the advantage of regional strongmen and exacerbate the political tensions within and among Eurasian states. To make the most of America’s limited influence along China’s western horizon (and elsewhere), it argues that US policymakers should pursue a selective and localized strategy to serve America’s aims in Eurasia and to better compete with China over the long run.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document